Amazon union organisers deflated as vote tilts against them in Bessemer

The vote has garnered national attention, with professional athletes, Hollywood stars and even President Joe Biden weighing in on the side of the union.

Amazon is heading into the final stretch of a union push in Bessemer, Alabama with a sizeable lead over labour organisers. With nearly half the ballots counted April 8 night, 1,100 warehouse workers had rejected the union while 463 voted in favour of it. The count will resume April 9 morning in Birmingham, Alabama, where agents for the National Labour Relations Board are counting each vote by hand. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is organising the Amazon workers in Bessemer, said that 3,215 votes were sent in — about 55% of the nearly 6,000 workers who were eligible to vote. Whichever side secures the majority of the votes will be declared the winner .