A file photo of a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Amazon workers voted against forming a union on April 9, in Alabama, handing the online retail giant a decisive victory and cutting off a path that labor activists had hoped would lead to similar efforts throughout the company and beyond. — AP
WASHINGTON: Despite the strongest public support and the most sympathetic president in years, the American labour movement just suffered a stinging defeat – again.
Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, overwhelmingly voted against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union in much-anticipated election results announced Friday.
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