Ahead of Workers’ Union Vote, “Amazon Mobilized an Army”
Today 4,000 Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ahead of the election, siccing local police on organizers and trying to pit black and Hispanic workers against each other.
Amazon has fired several visible supporters of the North Carolina union drive, including CAUSE president Rev Ryan Brown. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
Four thousand workers at a North Carolina Amazon warehouse are voting from February 10 to 15 on whether to unionize with Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity & Empowerment (CAUSE).
RDU1, in the town of Garner, outside Raleigh, would be the second unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States.
It’s an ambitious campaign. The workers are organizing across racial and ethnic divides, through constant turnover, in deeply hostile terrain. At 2.4 percent, North Carolina’s union density is the lowest in the country.
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