On February 4, Amazon workers at a Bessemer, Ala. facility will vote for a second time on whether they should form a union. Workers there voted against unionizing last February but the National Labor Relations Board found Amazon had “interfered with the employees’ exercise of a free and reasoned choice” and ordered a new election.
The effort is part of an increase in union activity in recent years. Last year marked a three-year peak in elections deciding whether workforces would organize for collective bargaining.
It was also the most number of active strikes in the US since 2006, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
