Amazon accused of ramping up anti-union efforts ahead of another warehouse election

is said to have intensified its anti-union efforts ahead of a union election at a warehouse later this month. The Amazon Labor Union told the company is mandating daily anti-union meetings at , a facility in Staten Island, New York. It's also said to have distributed anti-union literature and disciplined a leader of the drive for organizing on the warehouse floor. What's more, ALU says Amazon has hired anti-union consultants to pose as employees.

Workers at the warehouse, which reportedly has around 1,500 employees, are scheduled to . Amazon's anti-union efforts ramped up in recent days, according to the report. The ALU recently at a nearby facility, JFK8, which became the first Amazon warehouse in the US to formally unionize. Amazon the union's victory.

Amazon and the National Labor Relations Board in December in December, under which the company agreed to inform past and current warehouse workers in the US of their right to organize. The terms of the agreement afforded workers more leeway to organize in break rooms, which is said to have been a key factor in ALU's success at JFK8.

However, Amazon reportedly isn't sticking to those terms at LDJ5. The ALU said the company removed pro-union literature from the break room and took down a pro-union banner after the JFK8 election result became clear. A lawyer representing ALU workers has filed unfair labor practice charges against Amazon for removing the banner and allegedly retaliating against a worker to stifle unionization efforts.

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Amazon has long been accused of cracking down on workers' attempts to organize. Last year alone, it on anti-union consultants. The company's also said to be for workers, in which terms like “union” and “pay raise” are on a blocklist.

The NLRB said the company in a union election in Bessemer, Alabama last year and called for a rerun. However, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Amazon interfered in the second election as well. The result of that vote over challenged ballots.