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Labor movement targets Amazon as a foothold in the South

by Bill Barrow
| March 13, 2021 12:03 AM

BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — The South has never been hospitable to organized labor. But that may be changing, with an important test in Alabama, where thousands of workers at an Amazon campus are deciding whether to form a union.

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