Bernie Sanders visits Alabama in boost to Amazon workers' union effort

Senator Bernie Sanders visited Amazon workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama on Friday and said their "historic" effort to unionize will spark pro-labor movements across America. 

"If you pull this off here, believe me, workers all over this country are going to be saying 'if these people in Alabama could take on the wealthiest guy in the world, we can do it as well'," the Vermont senator said. The nearly 6,000 employees at the Amazon warehouse outside of Birmingham are in the process of voting to form a union with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which represents more than 15 million workers.