Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama refused to create what would have been the company’s first workers’ union in the United States, according to the public count of votes on Friday, in which the “no” was imposed on the “yes” by a large majority.
Thus, of the 3,215 votes cast and with 71% scrutinized, those who oppose the union already exceed more than half, 1,798.
Supporters of the union, meanwhile, have garnered only 738 supporters, less than half of their opponents.
The final results have not yet been certified by the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, and trade unionists still have the option of posing a legal battle if they consider that there have been irregularities in the process.
The scrutiny began on Thursday after nearly two full weeks of discussions between the company and unionists over the validity of each vote in a process that was done manually behind closed doors and vote by vote.
According to union sources, Amazon rejected several hundred votes.
From what I could have pioneered, voting was widely followed across the country, And even US President Democrat Joe Biden implicitly alluded to this case when he made, in early March, a strong public defense of unions and the right to unionize.
The firm run by Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world according to Forbes, is the second largest employer in the United States, just behind the Walmart hypermarket chain, and since the start of the pandemic. it has shot up both its business and its profits and has hired tens of thousands of new workers.
However, the company has no union of workers in the country and is known for its strong opposition to the organizational efforts of its employees, which it has shown on several occasions throughout this campaign at the Alabama warehouse.