Vote count tilting against unionising Alabama Amazon workers

With nearly half the ballots counted, 463 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alamaba had voted in favour of forming a union, compared to 1,100 voting against it.

Amazon is heading into the final stretch of a union push in Bessemer, Alabama, with a sizeable lead over labour organisers. With nearly half the ballots counted Thursday night, 1,100 warehouse workers had rejected the union while 463 voted in favour of it. The count resumed Friday morning in Birmingham, Alabama, where agents for the National Labor Relations Board are counting each vote by hand. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which is organising the Amazon workers in Bessemer, said that 3,215 votes were sent in — representing about 55 percent of the nearly 6,000 workers who were eligible to vote. Whichever side secures the majority of the votes will be declared the winner.