When I recently traveled to Amazon’s facility in Bessemer, Alabama, I found many workers there bouncing with excitement in their determination to persuade a majority of their co-workers to vote “yes” for a union.
The joy and enthusiasm I witnessed in Alabama cannot be imported from the outside. It can only come when workers take ownership of a campaign and want to control their future.
Hundreds of Bessemer’s workers are publicly taking on one of the world’s most powerful companies — speaking out on social media, holding informational meetings inside the fulfillment center’s break rooms, and wearing pro-union T-shirts on the job.
