Hoping for Breakthrough In Taking on a Behemoth

Amazon, Stuart Appelbaum notes, according to the New York Times has a 150-percent annual turnover rate, which while not the ideal way to run a business does a good job of stymieing union-organizing attempts. 

To gain the right to a union election, organizers must present the National Labor Relations Board with the signatures of at least 30 percent of the workers in the potential bargaining unit. Ideally, most organizers shoot for at least 50 percent of those in the unit as a safeguard against management challenges and shifts in personnel from the time signatures are first sought to the point when they are submitted as part of the election petition.