Amazon Workers Near Vote on Joining Union at Alabama Warehouse
The election, expected early next year, will be one of the few times that employees of the e-commerce giant have had an opportunity to decide whether to join a union.
Amazon has gone on a hiring spree during the pandemic, adding 1,400 employees a day.Credit.Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
Published Dec. 22, 2020Updated March 1, 2021
Thousands of workers at an Amazon warehouse near Birmingham, Ala., moved closer this week to holding a vote on whether to form a union, a milestone at the nation’s fastest growing large employer and a coup for organized labor, which has tried for years to make inroads at the e-commerce giant.