{"id":20913,"date":"2022-03-28T09:12:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=20913"},"modified":"2022-03-29T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T19:16:54","slug":"amazon-workers-in-new-york-cast-ballot-in-union-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/amazon-workers-in-new-york-cast-ballot-in-union-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Workers In New York Cast Ballot In Union Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"0\">Amazon workers at the JFK8 Staten Island warehouse in New York commenced voting on Friday on the need to form a union.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"1\">The move to form a union is championed by a group of workers known as the Amazon Labor Union (ALU). in-person voting at JFK8 will continue until March 30. Voted will be counted on March 31.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">For some workers, voting in favor of the union will guarantee several benefits to workers. This includes higher wages, longer breaks, and more paid time off.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">However, some workers are skeptical about having a union. This set of workers is concerned about ALU&#8217;s ability to advocate on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">Other workers have simply rejected the call for a union. It is believed that this distrust of unions is fanned by Amazon.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">Amazon is monitoring the event and is more concerned about its employees expressing themselves.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">&#8220;We look forward to having our employees\u2019 voices heard. Our focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making Amazon a great place to work,&#8221; said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"7\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/transactional\/amazon-workers-new-york-begin-voting-union-election-2022-03-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon workers at the JFK8 Staten Island warehouse in New York commenced voting on Friday on the need to form a union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,31,69],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-20913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-future-of-work","category-people","tag-amazon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20930,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20913\/revisions\/20930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}