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A man works at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. The retail giant faces a major labor battle with a unionization vote planned at a similar warehouse in Alabama.

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Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company's 1st U.S. Union

3:43pm January 15, 2021

by Alina Selyukh

Some 6,000 workers at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., will begin voting on Feb. 8 on a groundbreaking possibility: the first union in the company's U.S. history.

A worker pulls a pallet jack with plastic crates at an Amazon warehouse in Robbinsville, N.J. The company is facing its biggest labor battle yet with a unionization vote expected at a facility in Alabama.

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Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama Plan Vote On 1st U.S. Union

2:09pm December 18, 2020

by Alina Selyukh

A labor board hearing is hashing out how and when a vote might take place to form potentially the first U.S. union at one of America's largest employers.

Some workers at Amazon warehouses such as this one in the Staten Island borough of New York City have been trying to organize, facing stiff opposition from the company. Amazon workers in Alabama have now petitioned to form a union.

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Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama Petition To Unionize

1:30pm November 25, 2020

by Alina Selyukh

Warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala., notify federal labor authorities of plans to hold a unionization vote, teeing up a major labor battle at the retail giant known for its opposition to unionizing.