Dissident group wins Amazon union leadership vote, NY Times reports

A dissident group has won control of the Amazon Labor Union and Connor Spence, a leader of the group, will take over, succeeding the founding president, Christian Smalls, who chose not to run for re-election, The New York Times’ Noam Scheiber reports. Spence’s group, the A.L.U. Democratic Reform Caucus, brought a lawsuit last year to force leadership elections within the union, the only union in the country that formally represents Amazon warehouse workers, and the two sides announced a settlement in January that set the stage for this month’s election, which was overseen by a court-approved monitor. The union won a representation vote at a Staten Island warehouse in 2022 but has yet to negotiate a contract as Amazon contests the outcome, Scheiber writes.