Biden betting Bessemer Amazon union could help bring back America’s middle class
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
Activists in New York City came out to show their support on Feb. 27, 2021, for the approximately 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who will vote by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The move would make them the first union at an Amazon facility in the country. (Ron Adar/SOPA Images via Zuma Press/TNS)TNS
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By Will Bunch The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
In Bessemer, Alabama, on a morning in 1983, I saw America’s future even if I was utterly clueless about it at the time. I was a cub reporter for the Birmingham News, ambushed by a breathless editor when I walked into the newsroom. He said the second-richest man in the world as he’d just read in The Wall Street Journal was in our area and I needed to rac