Employees backing the union effort said that the issues at thewarehouse include safety concerns, inadequate pay, and 12-hourshifts with insufficient breaks and unreasonable hourly quotas.(Photo: Shutterstock)
A committee of employees at Amazon's recently opened StatenIsland fulfillment center is going public with a unionization campaign, a fresh challenge to the e-commercegiant in a city where it plans to build a major new campus.
Labor unrest is the latest complication in Amazon's plan toinvest $2.5 billion and hire 25,000 people in the city over thenext 15 years. Several New York City politicians who were shut outof negotiations handled by the governor and mayor have raisedobjections to a new office park in Queens that threatens tooverload mass transit and drive up rents in analready expensive housing market.
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