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What American Workers Really Want Instead of a Union at Amazon
After Bessemer, meaningful labor reform is more likely to come from the political right than the political left.
An RWDSU union rep holds a sign outside the Amazon fulfillment warehouse at the center of a unionization drive on March 29, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama. | Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images
By OREN CASS
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American Compass. From 2015 to 2019, Cass was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
After an intensive, months-long election, only one-eighth of the workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama warehouse voted in favor of a union. More than twice as many voted against. Roughly half didn’t vote at all.
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