The e-commerce giant has overwhelmed workers with messaging in the form of posters, videos and text messages at those locations. “They’ve stepped up … the union busting.”Īmazon has been deploying many of the same anti-union tactics it used at both JFK8 and a facility in Bessemer, Ala., that has its own organizing campaign. “I think they’re taking the ALU a little more seriously,” Eric Milner, a labor attorney that has represented the union in both votes, told The Hill. The LDJ5 facility houses roughly 1,500 workers, far less than the more than 8,000 who work across the street at JFK8. One of the biggest differences between the facility where the ALU notched its first win and where this election will be held is the size of their respective workforces.

“A second victory would be more damaging to Amazon than a loss would be damaging to the Amazon Labor Union,” said John Logan, director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University’s College of Business. locations, more than 200 other stores have petitioned for elections.

Roughly five months after the first union victory at one of the coffee chain’s U.S. The nascent campaign to unionize Starbucks stores has shown just how quickly union wins can snowball - even before the first contract is signed. The e-commerce giant, meanwhile, may stand to lose more than just a vote: Consecutive wins for campaigns it has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into defeating could diminish its perception as an all-powerful employer and spark more organizing. A win at LDJ5 could further prove the viability of the worker-led union and secure key protections for the facility’s workers.

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