If you want your bottle of laundry detergent or shipment of toilet paper, Amazon can get it to your doorstep the next day.
But if you want to know how workers at an Amazon warehouse voted on whether or not to unionize, you’re going to have to wait.
The final day for the nearly 6,000 workers in Bessemer, Alabama to cast their ballots was March 29. But it could take several more days or even weeks to review and tally everything before we know the outcome.
The vote itself has garnered national attention because of the potentially wide-reaching implications. Labor organizers hope a win in Bessemer will inspire thousands of workers nationwide – and not just at Amazon – to consider unionizing. For Amazon, it would mean a big blow to its profits and could alter its business operations.
Here’s what we know about the vote: