STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In what the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is calling a “historic decision,” the National Labor Relations Board has found that Amazon violated federal labor law by failing “to recognize and bargain” with the Amazon Labor Union based on Staten Island.
The board ruled that since about April 2, 2022, Amazon has either failed or refused to recognize and bargain with the union as the “exclusive collective-bargaining representative” of all hourly full-time and regular part-time fulfillment center associates employed at Amazon’s JFK8 building in Bloomfield.
In spring of 2022, Staten Island’s JFK8 facility became the nation’s first Amazon location to vote in favor of a union; the formation of the union won by a margin of 2,654 to 2,131…