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Amazon Wins a Battle to Join the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union
In 20 20, just a few months after amazon opened a new warehouse in bessamer alabama, workers started organizing. Many of the workers wanted better working conditions, better treatment and pay. So they attempted to join the retail wholesale and department store union. Labor organizations around the country were energized by what they saw. Momentum was growing. It was announced that a vote would take place among the employees of the warehouse about whether they should join the union. Amazon lobbied hard against it. And in the end, amazon walked away with a victory friday in its battle against the effort to unionize a bessimer,.Al Alabama warehouse workers voted at a more than two to