Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting of ballots in union vote

Re:Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting o... by anamexis on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:14PM (#26637342)

I participated in an NLRB election about 10 years ago, and I believe the name was on the ballot envelope, so the count happened in two stages.

First, go through all of the envelopes, reading the names, and either side can contest ballots, which are set aside.

Then, the uncontested ballots are removed from the envelopes and counted.

If the vote margin is less than the number of contested ballots, that kicks off some kind of remediation process.

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Re:Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting o... by Ericson2314 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @04:52PM (#26640308)

Oh good, that sounds nice. And how did the vote go?

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Re:Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting o... by anamexis on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:14PM (#26640622)

The union lost by 2 votes. The election results were later thrown out because the company had engaged in illegal electioneering, but by the time this happened the company had fired several union organizers (also illegally) and the campaign lost steam.

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Re:Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting o... by Ericson2314 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:39PM (#26642271)

aye....classic.

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Re:Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting o... by anamexis on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:43PM (#26642296)

indeed.

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