hether or not Amazon, a global behemoth and nowtrillion-dollar
<https://money.com/amazon-1-trillion-jeff-bezos-net-worth/>corporation,
will be forced to eventually collectively bargain with a unionized
workforce at its fulfillment center warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama
hinges upon the votes of nearly 6,000 workers. Despite its
characterization as a Red State in the Deep South, the workers in
Alabama are at the forefront of a new effort to revitalize the U.S.
labor movement.
If successful, the union drive would mark the first time an Amazon
facility in the U.S. is successfully unionized. A pro-union vote would
be a win for the entire of the working-class, and particularly in the US
South where several states have anti-union “right to work” laws. These
anti-union laws are a living example of how the region’sfraction
<https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-ugly-racial-history-of-right-to-work>of
the capitalist ruling class has traditionally employed both racism and
anti-labor legislation to help avert potential class solidarity efforts
across racial lines.
https://www.puntorojomag.org/2021/03/29/black-struggle-is-class-struggle/
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