An NLRB judge ruled that Amazon must collectively bargain with Teamsters-represented workers at a San Francisco delivery center, finding the company broke federal law by refusing to recognize the union after it won majority support among employees in 2024, according to Bloomberg. The ruling leaned on the Biden-era Cemex precedent, under which a company facing a legitimate union majority must either bargain or ask the NLRB to hold an election, neither of which Amazon did. It’s one of only a few times Amazon has been ordered to bargain with US workers, though like recent rulings over a New York warehouse and a Philadelphia Whole Foods, it’s unlikely to lead to actual bargaining soon. Amazon is appealing to the now Republican-majority NLRB in Washington, which could use the case to overturn Cemex entirely.
