Amazon staff on the Staten Island LDJ5 warehouse have reportedly gotten the Nationwide Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) permission to proceed with unionization efforts, according to the Amazon Labor Union, after the employees filed a petition to unionize in February. In line with a screenshot posted by Vice reporter Lauren Kaori Gurley, Amazon has acknowledged the choice in a message despatched to staff via its A to Z app.

The Amazon Labor Union, or ALU, has been working to unionize the power for some time — in October it filed a petition to unionize Amazon’s services on Staten Island, however later refiled that petition to give attention to a single warehouse, JFK8. Staff at JFK8 have since gotten approval to carry an election beginning on March twenty fifth. After the ALU filed a petition for LDJ5, the NLRB mentioned it could verify it “met the exhibiting of curiosity requirement to proceed with a union election.”

A spokesperson for the NLRB couldn’t instantly verify that the approval had been granted, and Amazon didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for remark. Nonetheless, the ALU claims it’s acquired that approval. Primarily based on the method for JFK8, the following step might be an NLRB listening to, after which specifics and dates for the election could be determined.

Amazon has beforehand been accused of anti-union actions in New York, with the NLRB alleging that it threatened, surveilled, and interrogated employees.

There are two different Amazon services concerned in union elections. Along with JFK8, Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama facility lately held its election redo, after the NLRB determined that Amazon had interfered with the primary one. Election officers for the Bessemer union drive are scheduled to begin counting votes on March twenty eighth, based on NPR. Within the authentic election, the vote was 1,798 to 738 in Amazon’s favor.