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Hopes High as Votes Come in For Alabama Union Drive at Amazon

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 3/29/21

The drive to unionize an Amazon distribution facility in Bessemer, Alabama March 22 got a spiritual boost when the Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor Peoples’ Campaign, brought his weekly Moral Monday revival there to support workers in the final week of the campaign that has taken on national significance.

The facility’s 6,000 workers, 85 percent of whom are black, had until March 29 to mail their ballots to the National Labor Relations Board.

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