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The Alabama Town That Could Defeat Jeff Bezos The Amazon billionaire is trying to crush a unionization effort at a warehouse in Bessemer. But David and Goliath fights are in the town’s DNA. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Some 5,800 people who work at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a town just outside of Birmingham, will receive union ballots on Monday. They have until March 29 to decide whether they want to affiliate with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, or RWDSU, and...

Voting process opens for Amazon warehouse union vote

Ballots go out this week to the more than 5,000 employees at the Bessemer fulfillment center.

Union election in Alabama: Which way forward for Amazon workers? The 5,800 workers at the BHM1 Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, will soon vote on whether to accept representation by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an affiliate of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Mail-in voting will start February 8 and end March 29 with the tally expected the next day. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rejected a motion by Amazon to delay...

SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon workers at a large US distribution center will begin voting Monday on whether to unionize after labor regulators rejected a request by the e-commerce giant to delay the process.

By Janice Lynn February 15, 2021 GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Six workers at the nonunion Foundation Food Group poultry plant here were killed Jan. 28 when a liquid nitrogen line ruptured and spewed a deadly freezing fog of nitrogen vapor. Nitrogen, used to freeze chicken, can reduce the oxygen in the air and cause asphyxiation, as well as death from burns from the cold.  Five of the workers died at the plant. A dozen workers were taken to an emergen...

Amazon loses attempt to delay milestone union vote at Alabama warehouse CNN 2/5/2021 By Sara Ashley OBrien, CNN Business © Michael Wade/Icon SMI/ZUMA Press A general view of the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Bessemer, Alabama on April 11, 2020. Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers at an Alabama facility will be able to cast their votes on whether to unionize by mail-in ballots beginning next week after the National Labor Relations Board rejected the companys latest attempt ...

The White House and the labor leaders connected with the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union have discussed the group's effort to unionize an Amazon.com Inc facility in Alabama, an RWDSU official said on Wednesday.

© Getty Images Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Alabama will proceed with a vote to unionize next week after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Friday denied Amazon’s request to delay the union election.  The NLRB denied Amazon’s motion to request a stay of the election after the company called for a review of the board’s earlier decision and pushed for an in-person vote.  In a two-sentence order the NLRB denied Amazon’s request, stating it “raises no substantial...

An Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York. Efforts to unionize warehouse workers have popped up at fulfillment centers across the country. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama will be allowed to conduct a union election by mail, the US’s top labor relations agency said on Friday, in a major blow to the online retail giant’s intense anti-union efforts. ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: insid...