Update, 2/8/19: Amazon is rethinking its new campus in New York City amid opposition from some elected officials and activists, The Washington Post reports.

While the company has not made any changes to its plans yet, it also hasn’t leased or purchased property for the hub in Long Island City, per the Post.

“The question is whether it’s worth it if the politicians in New York don’t want the project, especially with how people in Virginia and Nashville have been so welcoming,” one person familiar with the company’s thinking told the newspaper.

It’s also possible that Amazon is using the specter of withdrawing from New York as a way to pressure politicians into supporting the deal.

Original: Call it a tale of two cities, as the dual Amazon hubs in New York City and Arlington announced in November face very different tracks.

A plan to bring the company to New York City hit a snag this week, when the Democratic-led state senate named an opponent of the deal to a state board that could block it. In Virginia, the incentives package for the company sailed through the commonwealth’s legislature in late January.

While prominent members of the New York City Council spent last week criticizing Amazon over its forthcoming headquarters in Long Island City, politicians in Arlington are instead touting their efforts to work with the tech behemoth.

During a City Council hearing in New York last Wednesday, Amazon executives indicated they would oppose any unionization attempts among its Big Apple workforce. The answer didn’t sit well with pols like Corey Johnson, the council speaker, who called New York’s subsidy-laden deal with Amazon “vulture monopolistic capitalism at its worst.” (Of course, not all New York pols are wary—Governor Andrew Cuomo said he’d change his name to “Amazon” to entice the company.)

But Amazon’s answers in New York haven’t shaken the resolve of Arlington County Board members who’ve backed Virginia’s separate deal with the company for a hub in Northern Virginia. Arlington County Board Member Katie Cristol says that New York’s context “is so different from ours,” both in terms of the nuts and bolts of the terms offered to Amazon and Virginia’s status as a right-to-work state, meaning employers cannot require union dues.

Christian Dorsey, the chair of the Arlington County Board, says that “you don’t have to have unions in place to have a workplace where employees are fairly compensated and valued … Regardless of whether Amazon is open to unionizing its career workforce, I just want them to be an employer that does the right thing by its workers.”

Roshan Abraham of Our Revolution Arlington, an outspoken opponent of the Amazon deal, is skeptical that will happen. He says the company has a “laundry list of workplace problems,” like poor working conditions documented at the company’s warehouses and aggressive anti-union tactics.

Cristol says that Northern Virginia is working on protecting labor during Amazon’s forthcoming development of Crystal City through what’s called a project labor agreement, which is a legal document that establishes the terms and conditions for employment on a construction project before it solicits bids. It can include preventions against wage theft, uniforms hours, safety goals, provisions for apprenticeships, and other expectations. “This would allow our union trades a fair shot at bidding for the construction contract on the project,” says Cristol. “We’re really excited about this potential.”

Dorsey says the project labor agreement is “something that a clear majority of the board is interested in seeing [Amazon] pursue.”

Still, Cristol grants that the Arlington County Board has limited control over the PLA, and isn’t a party to it. “It is not something that I have formal negotiating power over,” she says. “We can’t make land use approval [contingent] on signing a project labor agreement. We’re trying to make it about shared interests.”

Stephen Courtien, field representative for the Baltimore-Washington Building Trades, says that they’ve held an initial meeting with Amazon and JBG Smith, the developer Amazon is partnering with for its forthcoming Northern Virginia campus, to discuss project labor agreements about two weeks ago and provided samples of other agreements put into place in Arlington. “They agreed in theory,” Courtien says, though he hasn’t heard back since.

Project labor agreements are somewhat commonplace and Amazon has signed onto them for projects in the past. Abraham of Our Revolution Arlington, calls it “at best, a first step …  In terms of fighting for workers’ rights, it’s a bare minimum.”

He says that New York politicians’ aggressive response toward Amazon shows that “we shouldn’t be afraid to push back against Amazon … [In New York], not only do you have activists pushing back, but you also have politicians pushing back and Amazon has done nothing to indicate that they’re going somewhere else. I haven’t seen anything like that from the [Arlington] County Board.” (Amazon has made what the New York Times deemed a “veiled threat” in response to criticism from New York politicians.)

The county board is set to vote on its direct financial incentive package in March, says Dorsey. The package includes $23 million paid to the company over 15 years. Already, the Virginia legislature passed its incentive package, which includes up to $750 million in grants through 2034 if the company creates 38,000 high-paying jobs.

Courtien is looking forward to Amazon coming to town, even if he has concerns about traffic. “As a construction union, we like seeing things get built,” he says.