Amazon seeks to block workers from voting by mail in landmark union drive

• 5,000 workers in Bessemer, Alabama, to vote in landmark effort
• Mail ballots used in similar votes because of coronavirus

Amazon is attempting to force workers planning to unionize at an Alabama warehouse to vote in person rather than by mail as it fights off a landmark attempt by its staff to organize.

The company is appealing against a ruling by a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) officer to permit 5,800 employees at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, to begin casting ballots by mail to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.