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Through March 30, almost 6,000 Amazon workers are voting on a potentially groundbreaking decision: whether to form the company s first unionized warehouse in America. It s the first unionization vote in years at a company that s ballooned into the country s second largest private employer and one of the world s most valuable.
For years, labor organizers and workers have tried to galvanize Amazon warehouses all around the country, including places famous for being union-friendly like New York. But the first one to get to this potentially historic union vote is in Bessemer, Alabama.
We explain how this warehouse union election came to be, and how it could upend history for both Amazon AND the South.
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On Jan. 29, the Laundromat Wash Supply workers scored a groundbreaking victory against their employer. For many years, the employees of Wash Supply have faced precarious working conditions at the workplace. The workers believed that the best tool they had to change the workplace was organizing and forming an independent labor association.
In New York City and other parts of the country, the retail laundromat industry is plagued by precarious working conditions. Laundromat industry employees have suffered from abuses by employers and the negligence of governmental institutions to investigate and enforce the existing laws that protect workers.
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