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 Friday in a union vote at its Bessemer, Ala., warehouse, the most high-profile organizing drive in the commerce giant’s history.