In a battle that mobilized the national union movement because of its symbolic importance Amazon appears to have defeated an effort by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union to organize its Bessemer, Ala. distribution center by a vote of 1,798 against to 738 in favor.
Nearly 700 of the 3,215 votes cast at the 6,000-worker facility were set aside once contested by either the union or management, but even if those votes had all been pro-union, it would not have changed the outcome.
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