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The meatpacking giant, which was criticized for failing to do enough to protect its workers from Covid-19 last year, has become a leader on corporate mandates.

Earlier this year, Amazon.com Inc handily defeated a historic union drive at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Over the past few weeks, Amazon has ramped up its campaign at the warehouse, forcing thousands of employees to attend meetings, posting signs critical of labor groups in bathrooms, and flying in staff from the West Coast, according to interviews and documents seen by Reuters. It is an indication that Amazon is sticking to its aggressive playbook.

By Jeffrey Dastin and Julia Love

That decision would ultimately thrust Jennifer Bates into the national spotlight thanks to her role as part of a high-profile union push inside Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama, facility.

This warehouse worker became the face of a union push at Amazon. She's still bracing for the fallout

When Amazon opened a sprawling warehouse in her community in March 2020, Jennifer Bates never guessed shed find herself testifying before members of Congress one year later about the "grueling"

In May 2020, Jennifer Bates was just a woman in Birmingham applying for a $15/hour job at an Amazon warehouse. Within a year, Bates would be in the national spotlight as a leader in the push to unionize one of the nation's largest employers.

That decision would ultimately thrust Jennifer Bates into the national spotlight thanks to her role as part of a high-profile union push inside Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama, facility.

Lara Skinner, director of the ILR Worker Institute’s Labor Leading on Climate Change, will be honored Sept. 21 by the Alliance for a Greater New York with a 2021 Movement Builders Award.“It’s an honor to have ALIGN recognize me for the work I’ve been