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597 4 minutes read Voting is now underway in Alabama. What started as a clandestine meeting between a handful of BHM1 Amazon Fulfillment Center workers and Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union organizers is now a full-fledged union drive. Roughly 5,800 workers are voting by mail to form what could be the first labor union at any Amazon facility in the United States. Voting ends March 29. The historic campaign, if successful, could spark a wave of unionization around the country. Amazon, owned by the second richest man in the world Jeff Bezos, now employs 1.5 million workers worldwi...

A chemical plant near Muscle Shoals, Ala., in the 1940s.Credit...Buyenlarge/Getty Images The Deep South is not generally known for its labor agitation, which is why it might come as a surprise for some to learn that it is in Alabama where workers have mounted one of the largest and most aggressive efforts to unionize Amazon in recent memory. More than 2,000 workers at a fulfillment center in the city of Bessemer, just outside Birmingham, have indicated support for a union election. An estimated 85 percent of the work force is Black, and their union drive — which ties labor issues to Black L...

Alabama is more than its shading on the electoral map.

Stunning that Amazon’s groundbreaking union vote is in Alabama Updated Feb 14, 2021; Today’s guest columnist is Eli Cohen. When I first saw that Amazon’s biggest unionization effort to date was taking place here in Birmingham, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I grew up in Birmingham. Even as a child, I was politically involved, travelling to Montgomery to visit lawmakers at the capital, and later to learn the dark sides of our history at the Equal Justice Initiative. I was no expert, but I thought I understood Alabama politics. I didn’t know everything, but I was confident Al...

The Alabama Town That Could Defeat Jeff Bezos The Amazon billionaire is trying to crush a unionization effort at a warehouse in Bessemer. But David and Goliath fights are in the town’s DNA. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Some 5,800 people who work at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a town just outside of Birmingham, will receive union ballots on Monday. They have until March 29 to decide whether they want to affiliate with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, or RWDSU, and in doing so, defy the wishes of Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world.