{"id":411382,"date":"2021-11-30T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=196361"},"modified":"2021-11-30T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:32:04","slug":"win-for-alabama-amazon-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/30\/win-for-alabama-amazon-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Win For Alabama Amazon Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a victory for\u00a0employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a federal labor official on Monday formally directed a new union election following\u00a0allegations\u00a0that the company engaged in illegal misconduct leading up to an unsuccessful vote in April.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), celebrated the order from National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 10 Director Lisa Henderson, which a spokesperson for the agency confirmed to multiple media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\"Today's decision confirms what we were saying all along\u2014that Amazon's intimidation and interference prevented workers from having a fair say in whether they wanted a union in their workplace\u2014and as the regional director has indicated, that is both unacceptable and illegal,\" Appelbaum said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/win-for-alabama-amazon-workers\/\">Win For Alabama Amazon Workers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/win-for-alabama-amazon-workers\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a victory for\u00a0employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a federal labor official on Monday formally directed a new union election following\u00a0allegations\u00a0that the company engaged in illegal misconduct leading up to an unsuccessful vote in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6991,3673,8720,12724,6990],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411383,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411382\/revisions\/411383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}