 "Amazon JFK8 distribution center union organizer Jason Anthony speaks to the media about preliminary results regarding the vote to unionize, outside the NLRB offices in Brooklyn (Photo: Reuters)")
Workers at an Amazon.com facility in New York City's Staten Island on Friday voted in favor of forming a union, making it the online retailer's first U.S. facility to organize.
Employees at the fulfillment center, known as JFK8, who supported the Amazon Labor Union secured a majority by hundreds of votes for the win.
The vote for unionizing was 2,654 compared to 2,131 voting against, or about 55 in favor, according to a Reuters tally.
There were not enough challenged ballots to affect results.
The victory for organized labor at the second-largest U.S.
private employer is a historic first for the retailing behemoth in the
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