It might be the most tracked shipment in Amazon history: 5,800 mail ballots are being sent out to the union-eligible workers at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center on Monday. In the coming weeks they'll be used to decide the largest US union election at the 26-year-old company, the country's second-largest employer. It's an unlikely vote, coming from an unlikely site, but if the labor organizers win, the Bessemer warehouse, not yet a year old, will become the country's first unionized Amazon facility and potentially a bellwether for the industry nationwide. Alabama isn't exactly known as a hotbed of labor organizing; it's a right-to-work state with a union membership rate of 8 percent , nearly three points below the national average (itself near an all-time low). The Birmingham suburb of Bessemer, however, has a deep history of strong unions that haven't been shy about striking. The Amazon facility sits atop land once owned by US Steel, a major employer in the region until the industry's decline in the latter half of the 20th century. Workers at the mills there belonged to United Steelworkers, the largest industrial union in North America. These days, the state is home to 12,000-plus poultry workers represented… Read full this story
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