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Four months after Amazon defeated a bid by workers to form a union at its Bessemer, Alabama, facility, management’s anti-union scheme could finally be getting serious scrutiny. An official at the federal agency that protects workers’ bargaining rights, the National Labor Relations Board, found that Amazon used illegal tactics to discourage workers from voting for the union—and said workers should get another chance to vote.
EPI research has shown that workers benefit immensely from unions—and that employers go to great lengths to oppose them. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, currently pending in Congress, would better protect workers from such tactics. Read the PRO Act fact sheet
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