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National labor groups began Monday to closely monitor an upstart union election at an Amazon warehouse that experts say could set the course for the future of American organizing -- and they want a piece of the action.
The balloting will take place this week and could produce the second union at an Amazon facility in the United States.
President Joe Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act into law Wednesday. The House and Senate passed the bill with strong bipartisan support last month.
It has not taken long for the leaders of the Amazon Labor Union, which won a vote at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island last week, to demonstrate their orientation to the AFL-CIO bureaucracy and the Democratic Party.
The success of an independent drive has organized labor asking whether it should take more of a back seat.