0440.json

{
    "id": 468,
    "date": "2021/09/13",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.reuters.com/technology/canadian-amazon-facility-files-union-vote-union-2021-09-14/"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "union drive"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "pay and benefits",
        "working conditions"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "blue collar workers",
        "inhouse workers"
    ],
    "description": "Teamsters Local Union 362 filed a request to hold a vote to form a union at an Amazon facility in Nisku, Alberta, Canada. Teamsters Local Union 362 is part of Teamsters Canada, a trade union that is affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamster.  Unionization efforts have already begun, including a petition being signed by \u201chundreds\u201d of warehouse workers, and the date to vote is yet to be decided. ",
    "online": null,
    "locations": [
        "nisku-alberta-canada"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "amazon"
    ],
    "workers": 601,
    "tags": [
        "teamster"
    ],
    "author": [
        "wynniechan"
    ],
    "latlngs": [
        [
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            -113.49682402031908
        ]
    ],
    "addresses": [
        "Amazon Warehouse, Nisku Spine Road, Ellerslie Industrial, Ellerslie, Edmonton, Leduc County, Alberta, T6X 2H4, Canada"
    ]
}