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Alabama warehouse workers on track to reject forming Amazon s first US union

Alabama warehouse workers on track to reject forming Amazon’s first US union Michael Sainato and agencies © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images Vote counting kicked off on Thursday in a consequential unionization drive at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, an effort seen as one of the most important labor fights in recent American history. While results have not yet been finalised, it appeared Thursday evening that warehouse workers were on track to reject unionization by a 2-1 margin, with almost half the votes counted. Vote counting will resume Friday morning. Of the received ballots, workers so far have voted 1,100-463 against forming a union at the warehouse in Bessemer. The election will determine if workers in Bessemer will form the first labor union at an Amazon warehouse in the US.

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Amazon challenges hundreds of ballots in Alabama workers union drive

Amazon challenges hundreds of ballots in Alabama workers’ union drive Michael Sainato © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images Amazon has challenged hundreds of ballots in a vote to form a union at one of its warehouses in Alabama in a unionization drive seen as one of the most important labor fights in recent American history. The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday began to open the ballots and start tabulating votes in the election in Bessemer, Alabama. Some 3,215 votes were cast in the election out of more than 5,800 eligible employees. The election will determine if workers in Bessemer will form the first labor union at an Amazon warehouse in the US.

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Sanders: McDonald s and Walmart workers shouldn t need subsidies to survive

US taxpayers should not be “forced to subsidize some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America”, Bernie Sanders told a Senate hearing on Thursday. As Congress debates the first rise in the minimum wage in over a decade, the Vermont senator said he had “talked to too many workers in this country who, with tears in their eyes, tell me the struggles they have to provide for their kids on starvation wages” even as the chief.

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Sanders: McDonald s and Walmart workers shouldn t need subsidies to survive

Sanders: McDonald s and Walmart workers shouldn t need subsidies to survive
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Pointless infighting among progressives is becoming exhausting and harmful

Pointless infighting among progressives is becoming exhausting and harmful insider@insider.com (Manny Fidel) © Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images Bernie Sanders is making money for charity thanks to his virtual inauguration meme. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images A disagreement over Medicare For All has pit influential progressives against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It s the latest example of progressives engaging in dumb, line-drawing battles against each other. Debate is healthy, but shunning people who want the same things is counter-productive. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. When a wing of progressives called on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to force a Medicare For All vote in the House, it drew a line in the sand for people on the left. #ForceTheVote was an effort that intended to ostracize Republicans and centrist Democrats who don t support an overhaul of our nation s healthcare system. AOC didn t think it

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