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Amazon workers in Alabama will have the opportunity decide whether to unionize for the third time in three years.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met Thursday with union organizers at the White House as the administration looks to boost unionization campaigns.

Amazon workers in Alabama appear to have rejected a union bid in a tight race, according to early results on Thursday.

After a crushing defeat last year, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union is hoping for a different outcome when warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama decide whether or not to form a union in a do-over election.

A federal labor board said that Amazon workers in a facility in Bessemer, Alabama will vote by mail next month in a re-run election to decide whether or not to unionize.

A new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, will be held based on objections to the first vote that took place in April.

A driver was shot to death in southeast Houston Sunday afternoon, Houston police said.

A recommendation to nullify the election results of an Amazon union vote in Bessemer, Alabama is breathing new life into the labor movement.

The union that tried, and failed, to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama may get a do-over.

The retail union that failed to organize Amazon workers at a Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse wants the results of a recent vote to be thrown out, saying that the company illegally interfered with the process.

After a union battle at an Alabama warehouse, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said that as executive chairman he will focus on making the company a better place to work.

Despite the strongest public support and the most sympathetic president in years, the American labor movement just suffered a stinging defeat -- again.

Amazon warehouse workers here voted overwhelmingly against forming a union Friday after a monthslong campaign in which labor had hoped to make inroads into the sprawling company.

Amazon workers voted against forming a union at a warehouse in Alabama, The win proved the might of the online shopping giant and cut off a path that labor activists had hoped would lead to similar efforts throughout the company and beyond.

Vote counting in the union push at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, is underway but a winner may not be determined until Friday.

Nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted on whether or not to form a union.

A banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The two sides are fully aware that it's not just the Bessemer warehouse on the line. 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. AdThe 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.

Meanwhile, labor advocates hope what's happening in Bessemer could inspire workers beyond Amazon to form a union. Besides higher pay, they want Amazon to give warehouse workers more break time and to be treated with respect. At the start of the pandemic, for example, Amazon workers held walkouts because they said they weren't given protective gear or told when coworkers tested positive for the virus. The last time Amazon workers tried to unionize was in 2014 at a warehouse in Delaware. AdA union win in Bessemer does not mean a union win at the more than 230 other Amazon warehouses spread across the country.

(AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)BESSEMER, Ala. – Linda Burns was excited at first to land a job at the Amazon warehouse outside Birmingham, Alabama. “They are treating us like robots rather than humans,” said Burns, 51, who said she is out of leave after developing tendonitis. This week, Amazon workers and union advocates, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, made a last-minute push as voting comes to a close in the high-stakes union battle. Workers also get benefits including health care, vision and dental insurance without paying union dues, the company said. Emmit Ashford, a part-time Amazon worker, said that even if the vote fails, he believes the workers in Bessemer have ignited something.

(AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)NEW YORK – Organizers trying to form the first union at an Amazon warehouse are getting support from another big name: Black Lives Matter. The group plans to hold an event Saturday near the warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, making it the latest high-profile supporter of the union push, which is the biggest in Amazon's nearly 30-year history. Most of the workers in the warehouse are Black, according to union organizers, and the backing from Black Lives Matter could help further legitimize the cause. “Black workers have historically been the backbone of this country, its institutions, and innovations,” said Patrisse Cullors, the executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, in a statement. More than 1,000 Amazon workers around the country have reached out to the union, according to Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is organizing the push at Bessemer.

Over decades, many white workers have drifted toward Republicans, attracted in part by cultural identity and an anti-establishment posture. Even without that law, labor leaders say the Amazon result could be a springboard for labor organizing nationwide. Merritt, an expert on Southern labor politics, drew a straight line from the pre-Civil War economy to the current climate. Before slavery’s abolition, she said, white workers were threatened -- explicitly or implicitly -- with being replaced by slaves, stripping them of any leverage with employers. Eventually, northern industrialists entered Southern markets, joining white Southern land barons to take advantage of cheap labor in industries including textiles, steel and mining.

(AP Photo/Jay Reeves)NEW YORK – The second Jennifer Bates walks away from her post at the Amazon warehouse where she works, the clock starts ticking. It’s that kind of pressure that has led some Amazon workers to organize the biggest unionization push at the company since it was founded in 1995. Appelbaum says the union has heard from Amazon warehouse workers all over the country. AdInside the warehouse, Bates says Amazon has been holding daily classes on why workers should vote against the union. Ad__Associated Press reporter Jay Reeves in Bessemer, Alabama and data reporter Angeliki Kastanis in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

(AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Three Alabama correctional officers are on leave as the FBI helps to investigate a prison altercation that hospitalized two officers and two inmates, including a well-known prison rights activist, the state prison system said Monday. The Alabama Department of Corrections said the incident occurred between staff and inmates at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer on Jan. 30. “We can, however, confirm that three correctional officers have been placed on mandatory leave pending the results of the investigation. The prison system said Council was taken to a hospital but is now back in prison custody. The prison system said it is investigating the death of an inmate found unresponsive in his cell.