At least 60 of 200 workers from Amazon's DNK5 depot in
Bayonne, New Jersey, have submitted cards seeking to organize as part of Local
713 International Brotherhood of the Trade Union, the NLRB said.
The news follows growing interest in organizing at Amazon,
which for years had resisted unions in its U.S. operations.
Just last month, thousands of employees at the JFK8
warehouse in Staten Island voted to organize under a different group known as
the Amazon Labor Union, and workers at a second Staten Island warehouse are
weighing later this month whether to unionize.
An election date and terms have yet to be agreed upon for
the delivery station DNK5. Amazon could dispute the validity of this latest
petition.
The company did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.