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Amazon is facing the biggest unionization push in its history. And it's happening in the unlikeliest of places: Alabama, a state with laws that don't favor unions. A successful effort could motivate others throughout Amazon to organize.
Amazon is facing the biggest unionization push in its history. And it's happening in the unlikeliest of places: Alabama, a state with laws that don't favor unions. A successful effort could motivate others throughout Amazon to organize.
Amazon workers in Bessemer Alabama came together Saturday afternoon to rally community support for unionization.
Alabama Amazon workers accelerate struggle for a union At an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., 5,800 workers have won the right to vote for union representation. The National Labor Relations Board has authorized a mail-in election starting Feb. 8, with ballots due by March 29. Union organizers talk to workers at 4:30 a.m. outside the gates of the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. If a majority of workers vote yes, their victory will be a historic moment in the struggle of U.S. low-paid, part-time and gig workers against sharpening capitalist exploitation. The campaign by Bessemer workers ...
MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images About 6,000 Amazon workers in Alabama will vote on forming a union, which would be the e-commerce giant's first union in its history, according to a petition filed. Workers will receive their ballots on February 8 to vote in the mail-in election over the wishes of Amazon, which was pushing for an in-person election. Amazon has been staunchly opposed to its workers organizing a union, with the company even hiring detectives with the Pinkerton spy agency to monitor efforts. About 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama will vote ...