Employees at an Amazon warehouse near Albany, the capital of New York state, voted against establishing a union, US officials announced Tuesday.
The result is a blow to the e-commerce giant’s unionization campaign.
In the vote, 406 employees spoke out against the ALU (Amazon Workers Union) proposal and 206 approved it, a spokeswoman for the National Labor Relations Board said.
The election marks the ALU’s second straight defeat, following a surprise victory at a Staten Island warehouse, the first Amazon facility to be unionized in the United States.
After prevailing at the 8,000-employee JFK8 warehouse, ALU lost a second vote in May at the LDJ5 warehouse, also on Staten Island.
The union was established in 2021 by a small group of current and former employees frustrated with Amazon’s policies during the pandemic. It is directed by Christian Smalls, a former employee of the Staten Island unit.
Before the election result, Smalls declared himself “proud”.
“Facing a $1 billion company [de faturamento] can never be a defeat for workers,” Smalls said on his Twitter account.
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