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Meet the longtime Jewish labor activist going up against Amazon in Alabama April 6, 2021 11:04 am Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia and Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, visit the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Birmingham, Ala., after meeting with workers and organizers involved in the facility s unionization effort, March 5, 2021. (Megan Varner/Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) A historic union battle in Bessemer, Alabama, could result in the country’s first organized Amazon warehouse – and it’s thrust a longtime Jewish union leader back into the spotlight. Stuart Appelbaum is president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents more than 60,000 workers in retail, food and warehouse jobs nationwide. The union, known as RWDSU, is vying to represent the nearly 6,000 warehouse workers in Amazon’s Bessemer fulfillment center, and Appelbaum, who has led the union for more than

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