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Workers don’t share Democrats’ nostalgia for unions

By Michael Barone
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Workers don’t share Democrats’ nostalgia for unions

It wasn’t even close. The final count was 1,798 against and 738 for, 71% to 29%.

The election in question was held over whether the employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, wanted to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union — not, as the Washington Post (owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos) put it, a contest of “Big Tech vs. its workers.”

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