Amazon’s bid BC Labor rejected his workers to overturn the ruling
The Labor Relations Board of the British Columbia has rejected a dialect to reverse an earlier decision by e-commerce giant Amazon, which, which Delta, EP.
A Labor Relations Board Panel ruled in a decision on Tuesday that it agrees with the original decision of the board in July that ordered the remedial certification due to Amazon. Hiring “To thwart the certification application of the union.”
The panel says that the evidence presented by Uniphore during its membership drive showed “a deliberate decision by the employer” to enhance its employee roster to dilute union support “.
The decision also states that Amazon deliberately took steps to pads his employee list and then used it to argue that the Sangh does not complete the limit for certification “Employee is manipulating the list to avoid certification.”
Amazon workers at Delta, BC were certified for unionization in a BC Labor Relations Board’s decision on Friday. Gavin McGrigal, Western Regional Director of Uniphore, says he is optimistic that the law will force Amazon to the bargaining table.
In a statement, Amazon spokesman Eleen Hards says the company plans to re -appeal to the decision and “the right will determine the next steps” after taking a final decision on the appeal “.
Amazon applied to the Labor Relations Board to reconsider it. Original July decisionAnd the latest ruling says that the company argued that the final board panel made an error in providing remedial certification to the Sangh along with implementing labor laws in the case.
The company argued that “an operational requirement for additional employees”, while described as a “comprehensive opposing union campaign”, was protected by the employer free speech rights.
The panel disagreed.
“In our view, the basic decision adopts the right approach, which is to consider the conduct of the employer,” the decision says.
Citing the example, the panel writes, “We note that the kind of activities engaged in the current matter are the classical identity of an intervention in the formation or selection of a trade union.”
The panel says that Amazon’s “Employee list is sufficiently egoistic” to “intentionally and improperly” is to justify its original decision to order the authentication of the union.
“From our perspective, an employee list is deliberately padding with the aim of reducing an event drive,” is even more fundamental attack on the supporting rights of its employees, “the latest decision states.
In a statement, Unifoor’s National President Lana Payne says that this decision is a “message” for BC employers not to interfere in unionization “or to suffer the consequences.”
Uniform Western Regional Director Gavin McGrigal told CBC News that the ruling displayed that no matter how big the workplace was, employees had an authority under the charter.
“Clearly, Amazon grossly interfered with that right. And so it has to be involved in collective bargaining,” he said.
“Keep the end of the grazing and let’s have a collective compromise for these workers.”
MCGARIGLE said that the Sangh was now talking to the workers what they wanted to see in a contract.
Amazon spokesperson Hards says the decision “is wrong on facts and law” and deprives workers of their “right to make informed decisions”.
