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It would mark the first successful U.S. organizing effort in Amazon history.

Scott Martelle Los Angeles Times Well, it was a valiant effort, that drive to organize workers at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Ala., which resulted in a defeat even more embarrassing than the vote count suggests. Nearly 6,000 workers would have been covered by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, but only a little more than half of the eligible workers bothered to vote. Of those who cast ballots, only 738 workers supported the union, 1,000 votes fewer than those who ...

National Memo Screenshot from Late Night with Seth Meyers Remember the pre-pandemic world? No masks, no capacity limits, and no social distancing. Texas and Mississippi are returning to that nostalgic time -- the only problem being that we are still in a pandemic and COVID-19 variants are spreading. Evidently the governors of those states dont care how many of their constituents die. Seth Meyers decided to take "a closer look" at these rash decisions by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Missis...

NEW YORK (AP) — The second Jennifer Bates walks away from her post at the Amazon...