| Aug 31, 2022 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI come from a football family. Across the South and much of the country, including in the Wiregrass region of Alabama where I live, it’s almost a religion. Working-class kids here dream of growing up to play football in college and the NFL. Our family gathered around...
| Dec 8, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, just ruled that a historic union vote among Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama was not valid. The highly publicized vote resulted in a resounding defeat for the union in March 2021, with more than 70 percent of...
| Oct 13, 2021 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyHere are two terms you don’t expect to see together: “The state of Alabama” and “progressive leader.” (Okay, I’m a Texan, so I have no standing to point at the rank regressiveness of any other state government… but still, Alabama?) And yet the Camellia State has...
| Apr 21, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFollowing one of the most high-profile union votes in history, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama ultimately rejected efforts to form a union. But for labor advocates, this fight is far from over. “The Amazon workers who voted for a union in Bessemer...
| Feb 24, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyActor and activist Danny Glover traveled recently to the most-watched Amazon facility in the country — the Bessemer fulfillment center outside Birmingham, Alabama. The warehouse’s more than 5,800 predominantly Black workers are in the middle of a historic vote on...
