Amazon workers in AL set to vote on unionization

[OrlandoDem2]

I hope for their sake they vote in favor of unionization.

[link:https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/tech/amazon-bessemer-union-vote/index.html?utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_content=2021-01-16T06%3A02%3A05&fbclid=IwAR2tOmzh6ECpGQzcPIVb8xqC_E20a-3wz9EieoUSuiOaDic1uLx-HGpDhPc|

(CNN Business)Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers at an Alabama facility will begin voting next month on whether to unionize their workplace, potentially paving the way for the first US-based union at the e-commerce giant.

The election will allow approximately 6,000 employees at the company's Bessemer, Alabama, facility to cast a vote by mail-in ballots beginning Feb. 8, according to a decision from the National Labor Relations Board posted on Friday.
The union push comes at a time when Amazon's warehouse working conditions have come under heightened scrutiny during the pandemic. The company has hired hundreds of thousands more workers globally to support a surge in demand. A number of warehouse workers have spoken out about safety concerns since the start of the pandemic.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. Alabama do something progressive? Don't hold your breath.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. I know. But we can hope. Amazon is already likely calling this socialism.

Amazon, however, benefits from corporate socialism like no other.

But if workers of the world unite...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. That's a shitty thing to say, especially about the people working hard to organize.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I held my breath hoping the auto and aircraft workers in TN and SC would organize but it failed.

I'm being realistic but I am hopeful. The deluded often vote against their own best interests.

[theneworiginal]

5. Chickens will always vote for Col. Sanders.

But economic necessity will do a lot for your voting habits.