Oh, Amazon won’t explicitly say they’re being fired for trying to unionize. There’ll be some cover story that the workers violated some rule no one ever heard of and everyone else ignored, too.

Sounds like an employment attorney's dream.

New York City is an expensive place for a warehouse. I believe it only exists so Amazon can offer same day delivery to millions of people. I have no idea how valuable that is to Amazon, but it’s apparently valuable enough that they already accept incredibly high costs. They may just accept the union as one of those costs.

But I understand that it’s possible to put a passage in the employee handbook that “if you belong to a union, the following does not apply to you; check your union agreement for details,” and to offer some benefits, such as profit-sharing, only to nonunion employees. Since labor law is complex, I don’t know what limits exist on that approach.

Amazon has two warehouses that I know of in NYC. One is next to the Empire State Building, the other is in Brooklyn along the East River. They are both “Prime Now” facilities with the option to have stuff delivered in under an hour. Prime Now isn’t only in NYC, they have it in about 25 cities in the US currently. It’s not the best known of Amazon services oddly, probably partly due to the separate app.

Edit:

Guess the number is closer to 75 now. It originally started in NYC several years ago, but has rapidly expanded now.

See the cities list by clicking on the “see all cities” link below where you can enter your zip code here:

https://primenow.amazon.com/storefront

Except that a large portion of of Amazon workforce is not contractually linked to Amazon.

I'm thinking in particular of Amazon Flex.

If you are not happy, with Amazon policy, they will just not give you any package to deliver.