Union seeking to organize Amazon site in New Jersey withdraws petition for vote
(Reuters) -A labor group looking for to characterize Amazon.com Inc staff in a small warehouse in New Jersey has withdrawn its petition for a unionization vote, a spokesperson for the U.S. Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB) mentioned on Tuesday.
The transfer got here a day after the NLRB mentioned the group, Native 713 Worldwide Brotherhood of the Commerce Union, had garnered sufficient curiosity from staff at Amazon’s small DNK5 facility to carry the vote. The rationale for the withdrawal was not instantly clear.
Representatives for the union and Amazon didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Labor organizing at Amazon, the second-largest non-public employer in the US, has gained momentum since staff at a a lot bigger warehouse in New York Metropolis voted weeks in the past to kind the retailer’s first U.S. union.
The group lively in New York, generally known as the Amazon Labor Union, is aiming to prepare a second warehouse within the metropolis’s borough of Staten Island, which staff will vote on later this month.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in Palo Alto, Calif.Enhancing by Chris Reese and Matthew Lewis)
