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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: 2) by Thexalon on Monday April 12 2021, @09:25PM
Yellen should in fact be regarded as a hero of working people: As Fed chair, she insisted on keeping the stimulus efforts under her control going until unemployment was back down to pre-crash levels, against a lot of banker-backed opposition that wanted her to stop them and pivot back to improving their interest margins as soon as Wall Street had bounced back. That decision was critical to the economy from about 2012-2016.
So her sympathies are pretty clear.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.