The two sides are fully aware that it's not just the Bessemer warehouse on the line. Bessemer workers finished casting their votes on Monday. The only other time Amazon came up against a union vote was in 2014, when the majority of the 30 workers at a Delaware warehouse turned it down. The auto workers union has had some of the largest union pushes of the last decade, but their most intense and publicized efforts ended in failure. The RWDSU estimates that more than 80% of the warehouse workers in Bessemer are Black.

Source: ABC News March 30, 2021 14:15 UTC