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- 11 July 2022
- Transport / Logistics Services
Thanks to its corporate position against trades unions, Amazon has refused to have a cargo hub in Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
Amazon had plans for a cargo hub that would have involved a 20 year lease and have created more than 1,000 jobs on the site. It would have transferred operations from Hartford, Connecticut and Baltimore to the site that would have served the US NE.
Huntley Lawrence, chief operating officer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said in a statement, “Unfortunately, the Port Authority and Amazon have been unable to reach an agreement on final lease terms and mutually concluded that further negotiations will not resolve the outstanding issues.”
According to local media reports, advocacy groups and unions involved in the negotiations insisted that Amazon would include labour agreements and a zero-emissions benchmark at the new site. Amazon however has an anti-union stance, shown in opposing unionisation at its warehouse facilities and losing a vote by its workers in Staten Island to unionise in April. As such it is believed that the online giant chose not to take up the lease on basis of its workers being able to organise from the very start.
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