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Danny Glover Joins Amazon Organizers on the Ground in Lead-Up to Union Vote
If workers successfully unionize, it could set off a wave of union drives at Amazon facilities across the country.
Bernie Sanders Is Heading to Bessemer During Last Days of Amazon Union Vote
If the workers successfully unionize, Sanders has said it would be a “shot heard around the world.”
Amazon Is Hiring Aggressive Firms to Bust Union Efforts
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos declined Bernie Sanders’s invitation to a Senate Budget Committee hearing on inequality today.
Black Workers in Alabama Aim to Slay the Trillion-Dollar Behemoth That Is Amazon
Unionizing the Amazon warehouse workforce, which is 85 percent Black, is above all a civil rights issue, say organizers.
Amazon Is Paying Consultants Nearly $10,000 a Day to Obstruct Union Drive
As workers in Alabama organize, the company’s tactics underscore the need for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
Incarcerated Organizer Airlifted to Hospital Following Attack by Prison Guards
Worried loved ones staged a protest at the hospital demanding that family be allowed to visit — a demand still unmet.
Extinction Rate Is Doubling in One of the Most Biodiverse States in the Country
Alabama could "go from being the king of diversity to the king of extinctions," says journalist Ben Raines.
People Incarcerated in Alabama Are Pushing for a New Year’s Prison Strike
Reprising its 2016 and 2018 prison strikes, Free Alabama Movement called for a statewide work strike on prison labor.
Supreme Court Upholds Alabama’s Ban on Curbside Ballot Drop-Off
The five conservative justices offered no explanation for their ruling.
COVID Hit Alabama Hard. State Officials Funneled CARES Act Relief to Donors.
Several organizations received millions of relief dollars for reasons without a clear link to COVID-19.