Union Loss May Bring New Phase of Campaign Against Amazon
After an election defeat in Alabama, many in labor are shifting strategies, wary of the challenges and expense of winning votes site by site.
Union canvassers outside of the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., last month.Credit...Bob Miller for The New York Times
April 9, 2021
The lopsided vote against a union at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., was a major disappointment to organized labor, which regards the fight with Amazon as central to labor’s survival. Yet the defeat doesn’t mark the end of the campaign against Amazon so much as a shift in strategy.