In this March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala.

Lessons From the Amazon Union Failure in Alabama

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 27, 2021

Jane McAlevey, organizer, senior policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, The Nation's strike correspondent and the author of A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing & the Fight for Democracy (Ecco, 2020), discusses why unionization efforts failed at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, what it means for future organizing at Amazon facilities and how the PRO Act might impact the national labor movement.

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