Amazon Staten Island Workers Withdraw Request for Union Vote
The New York Times
The workers had spent months collecting signatures to call for an election.
Workers at four Amazon warehouses on Staten Island have withdrawn their request for a union vote, throwing into doubt the future of an organizing push that could have led to the second election at an Amazon workplace in less than a year.
The group asked on Friday to withdraw its petition for an election, and the National Labor Relations Board approved.
Christian Smalls, a former Amazon employee leading the effort, said the board had told his group that it needed more signatures to demonstrate that enough workers were interested in holding an election. He said the group planned to refile once it got more workers signed on.
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