As Amazon union vote starts, AFL-CIO's tech think tank considers future of labor Amazon has grown rapidly during the pandemic. Now thousands of its workers will vote on whether to unionize. Image: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images 2021-02-08 16:46:26 UTC Amazon revealed on its latest earnings call that it controls the fates of 1.3 million employees, not counting temporary workers. On Monday in Alabama, more than 5,800 of them will be able to vote on whether to become the first Amazon warehouse in the United States to unionize. "Now it's our turn to be a disruptor," said Elizabeth Shuler, secretary-treasurer and second highest-ranking officer of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States.Â