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(Reuters) - Regina McDowell was not surprised that workers overwhelmingly rejected a union at an Amazon.com Inc warehouse in Alabama last week.
FILE PHOTO: Banners are placed at the Amazon facility as members of a congressional delegation arrive to show their support for workers who will vote on whether to unionize, in Bessemer, Alabama, U.S. March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File Photo
She spent 42 years working in a unionized electrical equipment factory in Indiana and was active in organizing drives including traveling to the South to track down workers at their homes to make the pitch for her union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Regina McDowell was not surprised that workers overwhelmingly rejected a union at an Amazon.com Inc warehouse in Alabama last week. She spent 42 years working in a unionized electrical equipment factory in Indiana and was active in organizing drives including traveling to the South to track down workers at their homes to make the pitch for her union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. “They’d sometimes shoo you off their property with a gun,” she said, adding that union dues were a sticking point for many. “I think that gets them,” said the 63-year-old grandmother, “that it’s less money they’ll have.”