The outcome was a setback for workers trying to score a second election success at an Amazon facility. The union vowed to keep trying to organize.
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Drives to organize steelworkers and autoworkers took decades but ultimately succeeded.
A victory at Bessemer would be great. But even without that workers at Amazon, Walmart, and Microsoft will continue to organize. Why? Because management can never represent the interests of the workforce.
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