Big Union Loss At Amazon Warehouse Casts Shadow Over Labor Movement
The resounding vote against forming a union at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is a blow to the labor movement. It has glimmers of hope but in the private sector unions are rare and mostly weak.
by Stephan Bisaha
Apr 16, 2021
3 minutes
After a nearly two-month-long union election, Amazon warehouse worker Carla Johnson is ready to move on.
"I'm glad it's over," Johnson said. "Now I can stop getting the emails, the phone calls, you know, from the union reps."
Results from last week showed Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted more than two-to-one against joining a union. Johnson voted to keep the union out because she trusts Amazon â the company treated her well during her recent battle with brain cancer. She also just doesn't believe the union could deliver on
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