Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama have voted against unionising, according to an unofficial tally.
![Amazon is the second-largest private employer in the United States and has been heavily criticised in recent years for its treatment of warehouse workers both in the US and abroad [File: Jay Reeves/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21092798612968.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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A warehouse in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama could become the first unionised Amazon facility in the United States.
![A small but growing number of Amazon workers at this warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama in the United States are publicly calling for a union, and with just a few days to go until the vote closes on March 29, the majority of the more than 5,800 workers at the site still haven’t cast their ballots [File: Jay Reeves/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP21071796325562.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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