Just days after Amazon lost a historic union election, US President Joe Biden made a tough attack on Amazon in a speech to union leaders on Wednesday.
At the North American construction union legislative session, Biden performed to a group of people who were clearly interested in the loss of Amazon’s warehouse facility on Staten Island, New York. This is the first time in the nearly 28 year history of the technology giant that its employees have successfully voted to organize.
Biden said in his comments that the trade union is to provide dignity and respect to people with “neck injuries”
“That’s why I set up the White House workers’ organization and empowerment working group,” Biden said. “Ensure that the option to join a trade union belongs only to workers.
“By the way, here we are at Amazon,” the president said, bending over to speak with a sly smile, which drew warm cheers from the audience. “Look! Look!” He raised a pointed finger and said.
White House press secretary Jan pusaki was later asked if Biden supported Amazon employees’ efforts to unionize.
Pusaki said Biden did not send a message that the president or the federal government would be directly involved in any of these efforts. Pusaki said that these remarks did convey Biden’s long-standing support for collective bargaining and other aspects.
2019 coronavirus disease center, Amazon in Staten Island, employees 2654 to 2131 voted to join the Amazon Union on Friday. The organization, led by a former employee, was dismissed under working conditions at the factory after leading a strike.
It was a landmark victory for the labor movement and a setback for the technology giant’s successful boycott of organized labor in its U.S. business over the years. Christian small, ALU leader, said he intended to extend the campaign to Amazon factories across the country.
Charlotte garden, an associate professor and labor and employment law expert at Seattle University School of law, told geekwire last week that once the National Labor Relations Board proved that the Union won, the next step was bargaining.
“Amazon’s legal obligation is to come to the negotiating table and bargain in good faith – but the punishment for companies that fail to meet their obligations is very weak, and Amazon will be encouraged to give as much as possible,” garden said.
In a video posted last year on Amazon, the workers’ Union in Bermuda did not mention his name, but another one in Bermuda.
