The #BoycottAmazon pro-union movement wants you to skip Prime for a week

Supporters of Amazon workers attempting to unionize have a simple request: Don't use Prime and other Amazon products for seven days, beginning today, Sunday, March 7. 

Some 6,000 workers at a huge Amazon facility in Bessemer, Ala. are voting on whether they'll unionize. Voting began in February and will wrap up at the end of March. Should it get approved, it would be the first Amazon union in the U.S. 

It's a critically important moment for union activists. Should the Bessemer's effort prove successful, other Amazon workers could follow suit. 

"This is the most important election for the working class of this country in the 21st century," Rep. Andy Levin (D - MI) said to workers in Bessemer on Friday. "This is the biggest election in the South in a generation." Read more...

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