Even as a union vote by Amazon workers was trending toward failure Thursday in Alabama, a Spokane-area labor organizer said he believes a similar effort to organize could be coming to Spokane.
The vote tally at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was tilting against the union by a count of 1,100 workers rejecting the effort to 463 voting in favor, when counting was stopped Thursday evening. The vote counting was to continue Friday.
But Eric Renner, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 1439, said he’s already heard from some Spokane-based Amazon employees who are among about 5,000 workers at the Amazon Fulfillment Center
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