Amazon's union vote: What's at stake in the Alabama warehouse election
Story Date: 4/6/2021

 

Source: Laura Hautala, CNET, 4/4/21

For the first time in seven years, Amazon warehouse workers are deciding whether to unionize, which could give them more say in their hours, pay and working conditions. Union drives rarely make it to a vote in Amazon warehouses, and those that have, failed. Now employees in Alabama have the opportunity to break this pattern and become the first unionized Amazon warehouse workers in the US.The 5,800 workers in Bessemer, a small industrial city outside of Birmingham, have been casting ballots in a union election for more...

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