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National Labor Relations Board officer recommends new vote in Amazon union effort By Musadiq Bidar August 2, 2021 / 9:42 PM / CBS News The Retail, Warehouse and Department Store Union (RWDSU) said a hearing officer for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recommended on Monday that a new election be held at Amazons warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, potentially providing the nearly 6,000 workers there a second chance to unionize. According to the union, the NLR...

As Warrior Met strike nears end of fourth month, United Mine Workers appeals to Wall Street hedge fund The strike by 1,100 coal miners against Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama will reach the end of its fourth month on August 1, the longest strike by United Mine Workers of America members since the strike against Pittston Coal in 1989-90. Protest in front of Blackrock headquarters (Source: NY Labor Council) The miners walked out on April 1 to demand the reversal of $6-an-hour wage cut and ...

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The Crime Novelist Who Wrote His Own Death Scene Eugene Izzi’s unpublished manuscript described a death almost exactly as his own. Did the writer predict his own demise, or was this all an elaborate, attention-getting ruse? By Philip Caputo Esquire This article originally appeared in the May 1997 issue of Esquire. Get access to every Esquire story ever published at . He was a powerfully built man, six feet tall and two hundred pounds, with thick, dark hair, a prominent nose, pierci...

US CEO pay soars during pandemic For the majority of the population, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a catastrophe on a scale not seen since the Second World War. With a death toll over 586,000 in the US alone, millions of families have lost loved ones, as parents, spouses, siblings, and even children fell ill and succumbed to the virus in a matter of days. Millions more have survived an infection only to face debilitating long-term consequences to their health. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Pr...

PRO Act Could Mean US Will Determine Winners of Unionization Drives More than 70 percent of the employees of Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, facility voted against joining a union, but that’s not the last word by far, especially if the Democrats’ PRO Act becomes law. A total of 3,215 of the Amazon warehouse’s 5,800 employees cast mail-in ballots in the April 9 election, with 1,798, or 70.9 percent, voting against unionizing under the banner of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Uni...

Union organizers file formal objections over Amazon’s opposition campaign in Alabama April 19, 2021 at 7:47 am (Amazon Photo) The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on Monday formally accused Amazon of illegal and coercive activity in the weeks preceding the union’s unsuccessful campaign to organize warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. In a series of 23 specific objections posted to the federal National Labor Relations Board docket (read in full below), the RWDSU broadly claimed th...

Union Moves for Results of Amazon Vote in Alabama to Be Invalidated Photo: Jay Reeves (AP) A litany of allegations about Amazon’s anti-union offensive today comes from the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). After Amazon workers in Bessemer chose not to unionize by a 1,798 to 738 vote, the RWDSU has accused the company of offering workers an impossible choice: reject the union or lose their job. If the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finds that the objections have mer...

Riddle: When is a labor union a lot like Donald Trump? Answer: When it loses an election.

Photo: Activists rally in Detroit in support of the Bessemer Amazon workers’ struggle. Liberation photo: Jason Tschantre Yesterday news broke regarding the loss of the union vote at the BHM1 Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama. Despite the loss, the workers have vowed to continue the movement and to file objections and Unfair Labor Practices complaints against Amazon’s illegal meddling in what should have been a fair process and decision made by the workers alone. There are many ...