Punching In: After Amazon’s Alabama Win, Big Questions for Union

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Ian Kullgren: After months of hyping the unionization drive at Amazon Inc.'s fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s bid to represent 5,800 warehouse workers fell apart with remarkable speed.

What the U.S. labor movement had hoped would be its biggest election win in decades turned out to be a loss so lopsided that National Labor Relations Board officials didn’t even bother counting 505 ballots that had been challenged.

RWDSU was always facing long odds. In recent decades, ...