Alabama Amazon ballot count Day 1 ends: 1,100 anti-union votes, 463 pro-union
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The count will resume Friday at 8:30 a.m. CST.

The count will resume Friday at 8:30 a.m. CST.

Currently, there are 1,100 “no” votes against the union, and 463 “yes” votes.

Some tweeters:

https://twitter.com/EzraNBC & https://twitter.com/GrimKim

The union seeking to represent workers said late Wednesday that there were 3,215 ballots cast — or about 55 percent of the roughly 5,800 workers who were eligible to vote. Hundreds of ballots are being contested, mostly by Amazon according to the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union.

Union elections are typically held in person, but the labor board determined that the election should be conducted by mail to minimize risks during the pandemic. The ballots were sent to workers in early February and were due at the agency before March 30. Since then, Amazon and the union have had a chance to challenge whether particular workers were eligible to vote. When the public counting is done, the agency will announce the formal results if the margin of victory for one side is greater than the number of contested ballots.

Each vote is taking about 7 seconds to count, that means the whole process should take about 6 hours and 15 minutes to complete. Looking like tomorrow.

On Amazon's side, it looks like there are mostly representatives from the law firm Morgan Lewis, which the company hired to help with this union vote, with a few corporate Amazon employees as well.

The vote counting is being shown on a video conference call to a small number of outsiders, including journalists, in addition to representatives from the union and the company.

The actual vote counting is being done in the NLRB offices in Birmingham, AL just a few miles from Bessemer where the Amazon Fulfillment Center known as BHM1 is located. That is the facility that is voting whether or not to join the union.

When the public counting is done, the agency will announce the formal results if the margin of victory for one side is greater than the number of contested ballots.

If the margin is narrower, then it could take two to three weeks for the N.L.R.B. to hold a hearing to sort through the contested ballots and take evidence from both sides on whether they should be counted.

Hundreds of ballots have been contested, which could delay either side from reaching the threshold.

  • bark [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    lol, it's getting crushed.

    Amazon wins again. Doesn't even take any effort, Americans are the stupidest most weak willed people on earth.

    • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      You sound like an /r/neoliberal ghoul. Stop cheering on the capitalists, there is no reason to celebrate when the working class does poorly in a single front of the international struggle.

      • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        i don't see their response as cheering, merely nihilistic affirmation and the joker laugh that comes with it.

      • Gkalaitza [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The working class in past eras where labor movement flurished and succeeded was famously not overworked, miseducared, without shit material conditions and propagandized. Every single one of these points would apply to any point in history where union struggle was successful. And at an even greater degree

          • TheHero [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Its all about the material conditions. The fact is they are not nearly as bad as they were when the original union battles were happening. People don't risk there lives in gun battle en mass because things are going only kinda shit.