{"id":44908,"date":"2022-02-16T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44908"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T22:58:15","slug":"new-union-vote-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44908","title":{"rendered":"New union (vote) in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at a Staten Island, N.Y., Amazon facility known as JFK8 will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/owrmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntkzjtfw_oljtwwjzjdtlkwfwtzrk.html?a=&amp;b=47177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/owrmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntkzjtfw_oljtwwjzjdtlkwfwtzrk.html?a%3D%26b%3D47177&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645137879137000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2UYFqM04wmxNL0m72wWr-R\">vote on unionization<\/a>\u00a0next month, labor organizers said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The election will be held in person between March 25 and 30, according to the independent Amazon Labor Union (ALU).<\/p>\n<p>The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) confirmed that a tentative agreement for the election has been reached.<\/p>\n<p>The ALU, which is made up of Amazon workers in Staten Island and not affiliated with any larger labor group, faces steep odds.<\/p>\n<p>The group had to retract its initial request for holding a unionization election after failing to clear the 30 percent support threshold required by the NLRB.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said the company remains \u201cskeptical that there are a sufficient number of legitimate signatures to support this election petition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at a Staten Island, N.Y.,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44909,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44908\/revisions\/44909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}