Bessemer, Alabama: The whole world is watching

Bessemer, Alabama: The whole world is watching
By Editor posted on February 22, 2021
An injury to one is an injury to all. 
This famous labor slogan, popularized by the Industrial Workers of the World over a century ago, is more meaningful today than ever. But it has a double meaning for workers at Amazon, where the workplace injury rate is exceptionally high due to the backbreaking, fast-paced work.
Their pain is felt by “all,” as in the slogan — the working class and oppressed of the world — who are watching with rapt attention the struggle for union representation in Bessemer, Ala. Warehouse workers, a huge majority of them Black and almost half of them women, are voting by mail in a National Labor Relations Board-supervised election running from Feb. 8 to March 29. The outcome, which could lead to the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S., will be announced after all the ballots are counted.

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