Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama might get a third try at unionizing | #elections | #alabama
It could have been the first unionized Amazon warehouse in America. Now, three years later, workers are waiting to learn whether they’ll get a third shot at a union election. A sweeping, monthslong hearing begins on Thursday to decide the fate of the unionization campaign at Amazon’s facility in Bessemer, Alabama. An administrative law judge […]
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Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election | #elections | #alabama
Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama, will vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). On Friday, the UAW filed for an election to represent all 5,200 of the plant’s hourly employees, after the union said a supermajority of workers at the company’s mammoth plant signed union cards in three months. Jeremy Kimbrell, a […]
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Lafayette Starbucks workers file to unionize, claiming management ignored complaints | #elections | #alabama
An open letter signed by six workers at the store in late June accused Starbucks of creating a hostile and unsafe environment, poor management and disregarding workers’ physical and mental health. “We have been short-handed on the floor multiple times and ignored by management when we needed extra coverage,” the letter reads. Pro-union workers at […]
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