Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, voted against joining a union by a margin of 1,798 to 738.1 Amazon, which hired 400,000 workers last year and is America’s second-largest employer, had last faced a union vote in 2014, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union said that it would contest the Bessemer results, arguing that some of the tactics used by the company, such as asking the USPS to install a mailbox at the facility the day before voting began and then to remove it after voting ended, were illegal.
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, voted against joining a union by a margin of 1,798 to 738.1 Amazon, which hired 400,000 workers last year and is America’s second-largest employer, had last faced a union vote in 2014, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union said that it would contest the Bessemer results, arguing that some of the tactics used by the company, such as asking the USPS to install a mailbox at the facility the day before voting began and then to remove it after voting ended, were illegal.