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Yves here. This post provides an in-depth account of how Amazon has been using every trick it can to defeat the union vote that just started for its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse workers. I assume readers know that Amazon warehouses are modern-day sweatshops, with workers intensively monitored for the speed of execution of their tasks. For instance, from the New York Post, hardly a left-leaning publication: Maureen Donnelly took a job with Amazon when the retail goliath opened a fulfillment cente...

Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama are organizing the largest unionization push since the company was founded. A successful effort could motivate other workers around the country to organize, but it’s an uphill battle.

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Some Amazon workers are organizing the biggest unionization push at the company since it was founded in 1995. And it’s happening in the unlikeliest of places: Bessemer, Alabama, a state with laws that don’t favor unions.

Alabama’s Amazon union push latest chapter in state’s tumultuous labor history Updated Feb 11, 2021; Posted Feb 11, 2021 A man stands along Powder Plant Road with a sign encouraging Amazon employees to vote yes for a union, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (William Thornton/al.com) Facebook Share A mail-in vote beginning this week on whether employees at Amazon’s Bessemer fulfillment center can be represented by a union has garnered worldwide attention, in no small part because of Alabama’s r...

BBC News By Natalie Sherman image captionOrganisers are trying to establish the first unionised Amazon warehouse in the US Joseph Jones doesnt find the gruelling physical demands of his job at Amazon particularly troubling - he can walk as many as 17 miles per shift. The firms attitude towards his work, however, is something else. "Its a very adversarial relationship with the supervisors and the staff," says the 35-year-old, who started working part-time at the companys warehouse in Bessemer, A...

The union election at an Amazon warehouse in central Alabama, which began Monday and will last for seven weeks, is being closely watched by both supporters and foes of organized labor. Workers at the facility have come closer to forming a union than any others in Amazon’s history, and a victory could have ramifications well beyond a single fulfillment center in the Birmingham suburbs. “The importance of this campaign transcends this one facility,” said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the R...

Finally Something Amazon Can Be Proud Of: A Unionization Vote Photo: Jim Watson (Getty Images) At long last, Amazon has a unionization vote on its hands, the first and only since 2014. Today, 5,800 Alabama warehouse workers have been sent mail-in ballots and can begin voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). If they vote in favor, RWDSU will be the first union to gain a foothold in the nation’s second-largest employer, a company that’s famously bee...

February 8, 2021 Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List. Amazon Has ‘Disregard for Health and Safety of Its Own Employees:’ RWDSU President: "Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous and Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union president Stuart Appelbaum discuss Amazon’s upcoming vote to unionize workers in Alabama. First of all, Id say that a m...

Tensions high at Amazon warehouse as milestone union vote gets underway On their way to and from the sprawling warehouse facility in Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon workers see union representatives holding signs encouraging them to vote “yes” for a union. But inside the facility, workers have frequently been pulled into meetings informing them of Amazon’s stance that a union is an unnecessary expense. Even when they sit on the toilet, they see anti-union signage on the bathroom stall. For week...