(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc’s warehouse workers in New York’s Staten Island have filed a petition to form a union, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board said on Monday.
Chris Smalls, a former employee at the warehouse, led the effort to collect the 2,000 signatures needed to petition regulators for a vote to organize.
For the last 6 months, workers at the Staten Island warehouse called “JFK8” and other nearby Amazon facilities have been organizing to form an independent union called the Amazon Labor Union (ALU).
(Reporting by Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru)
