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Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the region?

Amazon's union vote: What's at stake in the Alabama warehouse election Nearly 6,000 Bessemer workers could kick off a movement that takes Amazon's reputation for reliable delivery out of its control. Listen - 10:24 The warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, where a union vote will be tallied this week. Historically, the region had strong steel and coal unions, but industry died out in the late 20th century.  Bloomberg via Getty Images For the first time in seven years, Amazon warehouse workers are deciding ...

By 1961, Charles Koch had stacked up three engineering degrees and was back home in Wichita, Kansas, to join the family business of oil refining, pipelines, and manufacturing. His father, Fred, was at the time attempting to tackle a different sort of engineering challenge: how to get unions, Communists, and big government off his back. The Nazi sympathizer Koch patriarch fought against unions in Kansas, and when the John Birch Society convened its inaugural meeting in 1958—initially composed exclusively of National Association of Manufacturers members—he enthusiastically attended as a co-...