Michael Foster of the US Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama. After that concludes on March 29, Bessemer may become a unionised plant, Amazon’s first in America after a quarter-century of operations. Barely 10 per cent of American workers today belong to a union but, according to Gallup, a pollster, 65 per cent of Americans approve of labour unions. Workers at Amazon plants across America, Appelbaum says, have been in touch to say they may follow Bessemer’s lead. Bill Barrow/AP An Amazon distribution centre in Alabama is the centre of a potentially groundbreaking unionisation effort in the US.

Source: Stuff March 28, 2021 19:07 UTC