Organized labor’s organizing efforts in the South in recent years have focused on equating union membership with social justice. Over the last decade, that narrative has been soundly rejected in union votes and in most cases by workers with significant percentages of Black workers.
The most recent example came in Bessemer, Alabama, as some 6,000 workers in Amazon’s BHM1 Fulfillment Center there resoundingly rejected the organizing effort by the New York City-based Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) – with 1,798 votes against the union and 738 in favor of it.
Amazon officials said the post-election numbers reflected that “less than 16 percent of the employees at BHM1 voted to join the RWDSU union.”
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Building of business units next to Amazon s Durham warehouse starts this summer CONSTRUCTION of more than 20 modern business units will begin this summer next to Amazon s warehouse near Durham. Durham County Council has granted planning consent to Citrus Durham for the next phase of employment accommodation at its £300m mixed-use Integra 61 development at J61 of the A1(M) at Bowburn. The new business/industrial hub, Evolution@Integra61, will be delivered speculatively by Citrus and will add up to a further 23 flexible units totalling 52,142 sq ft in sizes from 1,205 sq ft up to 6,480 sq ft at the Integra 61 development. The site already includes Amazon’s new 2m sq ft Fulfilment Centre and has consent for more than 3 million sq ft of employment space - with the potential to create some 4,000 jobs.
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New Amazon Fulfillment Center to open in Arlington April 9, 2021 at 9:58 am
Packed orders move down a conveyor belt at the Amazon fulfillment center May 3, 2018, in Aurora, Colorado. (Photo by Rick T. Wilking/Getty Images)
A new Amazon Fulfillment Center is being built in Arlington, Wash., the company announced Thursday.
The City of Arlington had been under a strict confidentiality agreement during the development permitting process. The development had been known as “Project Roxy.”
The building will be located at 172nd Street and 51st Avenue, south of the Arlington Airport in the city’s Cascade Industrial Center.
In January, while developers had not specified which company would be using the facility, neighbors were thinking that the size and scope was only suited for Amazon.