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Andy Levin on Amazon: âThis Is the Biggest Union Election in This Centuryâ
The Michigan congressman met with workers in Alabama who are organizing an Amazon warehouse.
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Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside the Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon facility, February 9, 2021.
On Friday, Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) led a delegation of members of Congress to Bessemer, Alabama, where workers at an Amazon warehouse are striving to become the first unionized facility managed by the e-commerce giant anywhere in the country. The members, who included Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Cori Bush (D-MO), Nikema Williams (D-GA), and hometown congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL), met with workers and held a roundtable discussion, in addition to visiting the front gates of the facility. The labor movement has gone all in on this election, amid some of the more innovative anti-union tactics in recent memory. I talked to Levin by phone from t