Breaking News: Amazon appears to have beaten the most significant labor drive in its history. A vote tally showed a majority of workers at an Alabama warehouse voted against forming a union. nyti.ms/2PS5j8L
Workers at an Amazon cast more than 1,600 votes against a union, giving Amazon enough votes to defeat the effort. In making its case, the company argued that its workers had access to jobs that pay $15 an hour without needing to involve a union. nyti.ms/2PS5j8L 
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which led the drive, said Amazon engaged in anti-union tactics and that it would call on the National Labor Relations Board to hold the company accountable for "illegal and egregious behavior." nyti.ms/2PS5j8L
Amazon has repeatedly squashed labor activism. A failed union effort at a warehouse in Virginia five years ago offers one of the fullest pictures yet of what pushes Amazon workers to try to unionize and the tactics the company deploys to shut it down. nyti.ms/2PIDZd8
The defeat at the Alabama warehouse is a crushing blow for organized labor. It could lead organizers to rethink their strategy, including focusing more on backing national policies such as a higher federal minimum wage. nyti.ms/2PS5j8L
After the defeat of a unionization drive at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, labor leaders said they would step up their informal efforts to highlight and resist the company’s business and labor practices rather than seek elections at individual job sites. nyti.ms/3d6w02p
After Amazon workers in Alabama voted against forming a union, Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, spoke about why he thought the drive failed. nyti.ms/3d6w02p
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