Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers in New York voted to establish the tech giant’s first union in the U.S., providing a major victory for labor activists who have long sought to bring representation to the nation’s second-largest private employer.
Employees at the JFK8 facility, Amazon’s largest in Staten Island, voted 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of organizing, the National Labor Relations Board said Friday. That gave the labor group, which calls itself Amazon Labor Union, a clear majority of the total votes cast, even with several dozen challenged or voided ballots. More than 57% of the facility’s roughly 8,300 eligible voters cast valid ballots, according to NLRB data.
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