The effort to unionize the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse may have fallen short. But labor organizers aren’t giving up on Amazon.

When the 100,000- member Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union filed to hold an election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, in November 2020, it was a potentially epochal moment. The labor movement was eager to capitalize on the rise of worker activism during the pandemic and establish a beachhead within the country’s second-largest private...

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