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A Second Amazon Warehouse Is Voting To Unionize
Voting began today in a union election at Amazon’s RDU1 warehouse in Garner that could make the sprawling facility the second unionized Amazon workplace in the United States.
As Amazon has ramped up its anti-union campaign, organizers have fought back, setting up a camp outside the warehouse and rallying support from labor leaders nationwide—including veterans of the successful Staten Island union drive, whose visit ended in arrest on the eve of the election. There are TV screens throughout RDU1 playing anti-union videos on a loop, he said, and managers have been holding daily town halls that Medelius characterizes as “vote no rallies” on a stage next to the ship dock—the same location where the union election is being held this week. To combat Amazon’s messaging and spread their own information, C.A.U.S.E organizers have set up a “camp” on the sidewalk outside the warehouse, with tents and tables where they barbecue hot dogs and hamburgers and distribute union materials to workers during shift changes.
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