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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
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, filed for a union election on November 20. Photo: Workers at Amazon's Shakopee, Minnesota, fulfillment center walked out in a December 2018 protest. Credit: Fibonacci Blue, CC BY 2.0. The election is to determine whether a majority of the employees at the newly opened Amazon Fulfillment Center (BHM1) in Bessemer—a small of suburb of Birmingham, Alabama—want union representation. Amazon was represented at the hearing by the law firm Morgan Lewis—a firm that specializes in “union avoidance” strategies. In dispute was the size of the bargaining unit...