{"id":3999,"date":"2021-04-12T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:43:50","slug":"amazon-workers-vote-against-union-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/amazon-workers-vote-against-union-in-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Workers Vote Against Union in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Votes tallied last Friday showed Alabama warehouse workers of retail giant Amazon voted against forming a trade union by a nearly two to one margin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 1,798 warehouse workers voted against forming a union while 738 were in favor of it. The voting results gave a major victory to the retail giant as it faced criticism over its treatment of employees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, labor reps from Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union are challenging the results, claiming that Amazon left no stone unturned in its efforts to gaslight its own employees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This accusation has been strongly denied by Amazon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon claimed that the majority of its workers do not need a union as the company was already providing them a minimum wage of $15 per hour and other benefits. The company employs 950,000 full and part-time workers in the US and about 1.3 million globally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, the world\u2019s richest man, who last year saw his company enjoy record revenue that climbed 84% to $21 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, you may view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/amazon-workers-vote-against-union-in-alabama\/a-57151310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from DW.com.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Votes tallied last Friday showed Alabama warehouse workers of retail giant Amazon voted against forming a trade union by a nearly two to one margin.&nbsp; A total of 1,798 warehouse workers voted against forming a union while 738 were in favor of it. The voting results gave a major victory to the retail giant as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}