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April 09, 2021Amazon employees in Alabama voted against the formation of an internal union.
To declare it is the Wall Street Journal that is following the counting of the ballots from the inside.
With 72% of the ballots scrutinized, the results speak of 71% of the employees in the Bessemer warehouse opposed to joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
Out of 3,215 voters, 1,608 declared themselves not in favor.
The Bessemer facility employs less than 1% of Amazon's approximately 950,000 employees in the United States.
The National Labor Relations Board that continues to count live votes has not yet declared an official winner. When the vote count is finished each party has one week to contest the results before official certification.
Amazon, during the election campaign, always said that unionization of workers was not necessary, as it pays double the minimum wage in Alabama and offers workers generous health benefits.
Employees in favor of unionization would have liked to negotiate on pay, work pace and scheduled breaks for each shift: many complained that they did not even have time to use the toilets.