Update: A majority of workers have voted not to form a union at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Bessemer, Alabama. The result of the NLRB's initial vote count was 1,798 votes against the union and 738 in favor. Hundreds of additional ballots were not counted because their authenticity was disputed. But the "no" side already has a majority of the 3,215 votes cast, making the issue moot.
Original story, April 8: A closely watched effort to unionize an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama appears to be headed for defeat. With about half the votes counted, 1,100 workers have voted against forming a union, while only 463 voted in favor.
The National Labor Relations Board is counting the 3,215 votes that were cast by workers at the Bessemer facility. The union needs to win at least half the votes in order to become the official representative of the roughly 6,000 workers at the Bessemer facility. Counting has ended for the evening and is scheduled to resume at 8:30 am Central Time on Friday.
Also at The Washington Post, c|net, and Al Jazeera.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @01:27AM (3 children)
I smell a scab. Probably an Uber driving untermensch. Or, a corporate shill. Unions are coming back. There is just a Huge propaganda campaign against them. I wonder why? Right to be unemployed Laws? Libertarian immiserization of the lumpen proletariat? Or just Americans are not completely stupid enough to consistently vote against their own interest. Have some Obamacare, homie!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @06:12AM
Nah, I've just worked in multiple union and non-union shops over the years, in multiple industries, and I've had lots of watercooler conversations about unions.
Y'know. Talking to people as if they were real people, instead of statistics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @11:19AM
I smell a salaried professional pretending to be pro-worker. Many unions are good, but just as many are corrupt sellouts, and even the good unions help unproductive people at the expense of good workers. Go find a UAW member that has something good to say about the union...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 11 2021, @01:45PM