Amazon warehouse workers could get second vote on forming union

National Labor Relations Board official finds company's anti-union tactics tainted election

Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama may get a second chance to form the company's first union, after a US labor board official recommended a rerun of a landmark vote that failed to pass in April.

An official at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined Amazon's tactics against unionization tainted the election sufficiently to warrant a do-over. Workers had voted by a margin of 2-1 not to form a union in what was viewed as a huge blow to labor advocates seeking to organize Amazon, the second-largest employer in the country.