Amazon Installs Sign in Warehouse Urging Workers Not to Sign Union Cards

Engadget reports that Amazon has installed a slick, high-tech sign in its warehouse in upstate New York with a message for employees: don't sign a union card:

The carousel of anti-union posters went up Friday and cycles between approximately seven different slides, each actively discouraging workers from signing a union card. 'It's on a constant loop while people punch in and punch out of their shifts,' [one employee] said, '[when] they go on their breaks, or they go on their lunch. Any time that we're going to be up towards the front.'

Amazon has been known to post signage meant to discourage unionization at other facilities. As Vice reported in March, workers at JFK8 in Staten Island, New York were treated to an array of posters with circumspect slogans like 'Is union life for me?' and 'Will the [Amazon Labor Union]'s voice replace mine?' The signage at ALB1 appears to represent the most forceful tack the company has taken in expressing its disdain for an organized workforce. The company also has a track record of breaking labor laws and frustrating organizing efforts: firing or otherwise retaliating against workers, preventing workers from handing out pamphlets, and interfering with a union election. Behind closed doors, the company also planned a smear campaign against a prominent organizer.

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