‘Everybody’s excited’: Amazon workers in Staten Island to file for union vote

Amazon Labor Union bids to create independent group - but workers say the company has openly opposed their effort

Amazon workers plan to file for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board next Monday, after months of organizing and collecting over 2,000 union authorization cards from employees at a warehouse in New York City.

The move will be the latest bid to organize a union at Amazon - which has opposed unionization of its huge workforce - by a labor movement seeking to flex its muscles as the US economy emerges from the pandemic.