By: The FT
February 9, 2021
Amazon should stop interfering with efforts by its workers to unionise ahead of a pivotal vote in Alabama, said a group of more than 70 of its investors.
Mail-in balloting began this week among more than 5,800 employees in Bessemer, a suburb of Birmingham, marking the first attempt by US-based Amazon workers to vote for union representation. But an anti-union campaign has been waged through posters, flurries of text messages and compulsory meetings during working hours.
A website has been set up to advise workers that unionisation would mean “it won’t be easy to be as helpful and social with each other”.