{"id":31504,"date":"2021-02-08T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31504"},"modified":"2021-02-08T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:19:31","slug":"ballots-go-out-in-amazon-union-battle-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31504","title":{"rendered":"Ballots go out in Amazon union battle in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., are being sent their ballots Monday in one of the most important union elections of the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>The roughly 5,800 plant workers will now have seven weeks to cast their ballots for National Labor Relations Board certification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe importance of this vote transcends this one facility,\u201d said Stuart Applebaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which would represent the warehouse if a majority of votes cast go its way.<\/p>\n<p>The workers in support of the union are organizing for better wages, less arduous schedules and adequate coronavirus protections.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has maintained that the union does not represent the majority of its workers\u2019 views and touted its starting wage and health benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31505,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31504\/revisions\/31505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}