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Organized labor’s organizing efforts in the South in recent years have focused on equating union membership with social justice. Over the last decade, that narrative has been soundly rejected in union votes and in most cases by workers with significant percentages of Black workers. The most recent example came in Bessemer, Alabama, as some 6,000 workers in Amazon’s BHM1 Fulfillment Center there resoundingly rejected the organizing effort by the New York City-based Retail, Wholesale and Depa...

It wasn’t just because Amazon allegedly tampered with mailboxes and traffic lights.

Amazon FC Vote Challenged By Union Protesters in Seattle. Photo credit: Susan Fried, South Seattle Emerald The union that was unsuccessful in its effort to organize workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Alabama immediately challenged the April 9 outcome as expected, claiming the ecommerce giant illegally interfered with the election. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union said it was filing the complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, asking the NLRB to investigate Amaz...

Amazon Broke the Law: Union Seeks New Election After Alabama Warehouse Organizing Drive Fails The largest union drive in the history of Amazon has ended with the company on top. After a months-long battle, 738 workers at Amazons Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse voted to unionize, and 1,798 voted no. Ballots from another 505 workers were challenged, mostly by Amazon. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union that led the drive says Amazon illegally interfered in the vote, and it plans to file...

Workers Revolutionary Party THE UNITED States’ Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is to file charges against Amazon on the grounds that they illegally interfered in a recent vote to recognise the union, and to hold the giant company accountable for their actions. The RWDSU will file Objections and Unfair Labour Practice charges implicating Amazon. This follows reports that Amazon employees at the company’s giant warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have vo...

When studying the factors that led to the failure of US workers at Amazon to unionise, writes Malik Miah, we should learn from one of the greatest organising periods in the United States: the 1930s.

Amazon defeats union push in Alabama, but labor leaders say the fight’s not over The union push at Bessemer marked the first time that workers have tried to unionize a U.S. Amazon facility since a failed 2014 effort in Delaware. In this Feb. 9 file photo, Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union held a sign outside an Amazon facility where labor was trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala.(Jay Reeves) By Tribune News Service Amazon scored a resounding victory Fri...

Apr 13, 2021 The lopsided vote against a union at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was a major disappointment to organized labor, which regards the fight with Amazon as central to labor’s survival. Yet the defeat doesn’t mark the end of the campaign against Amazon so much as a shift in strategy. In interviews, labor leaders said they would step up their informal efforts to highlight and resist the company’s business and labor practices rather than seek elections at indi...

THE news that the US union RWDSU (Retail Wholesale Department Store Union) has lost the ballot for recognition in Bessemer is an immediate and crushing defeat but also raises a longer-term question — is US-style “community organising” finished?  The loss of this vote among 6,000 workers in Bessemer, Alabama, is hot on the heels of the similar outcome at VW in the same state.  What is even more remarkable is that this is in the plant where an estimated 80 per cent of the workers are bla...

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