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Update: The National Labor Relations Board resumed counting of ballots on Friday at 9:30 am CET. You can follow here. With around half of the ballots counted on Thursday night, Amazon was in the lead in one of its Alabama warehouses in the…

With about half of the ballots counted late Thursday, anti-union votes had a more than 2-to-1 advantage over supporters, according to a live broadcast of the count counted by the New York Times. When the count paused, there were 1,100…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.The outcome of a vote to form a union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., Depends heavily on it.My colleague Karen Weise described it as…

Rally organized by the Workers' Assembly Against Racism in support of workers in the Amazon camp in Bessemer, Alabama, to unionize rights in Union Square across from Amazon's Whole Foods Market.Lev Radin | LightRocket | Getty ImagesThe…

Here’s what you need to know:The Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala.Credit...Charity Rachelle for The New York TimesThe counting of votes that will determine whether to a union can form at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., begins…

Amazon plays an aggressive defense against its critics as it stares at a historic union vote in one of its Alabama warehouses. For the past few days, Amazon has been arguing with a handful of high-profile lawmakers on Twitter about its…

WASHINGTON - Amazon is connected to the Biden administration on several fronts.It supports a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour. It is committed to achieving all of the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement to reduce emissions. It met with the…

National Football League players were among the first to express their support. Then came Stacey Abrams, the Democratic star who helped turn Georgia blue in the 2020 election.Actor Danny Glover traveled to Bessemer, Ala. For a press…

Peter Endig | AFP | Getty ImagesAmazon on Friday lost its urge to postpone a closely watched union vote in a sprawling warehouse in Alabama, allowing 6,000 workers to decide on the company's first major union effort since 2014.The…

The New Yorker's union employees didn't go to work Thursday.The New York Union's 100+ employees, which include fact checkers, web producers and a few other editorial staff, opted for the full-day strike after recent rounds of negotiations…