The National Labor Relations Board’s review of ballots from Amazon.com Inc’s landmark union election in Alabama will continue on Wednesday, with momentum for future labor organizing at America’s second-largest private employer hanging in the balance... Amazon has aggressively discouraged attempts by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) to become the first ever to organize one of the online retail giant’s facilities in the United States.

... A union victory would leave Amazon, second only to Walmart Inc with more than 800,000 employees nationwide, vulnerable to additional organizing efforts and represent a watershed moment for the U.S. labor movement, said Wilma Liebman, a former NLRB chair during the Obama administration.

... In a statement, Amazon said, “Our employees know the truth—starting wages of $15 or more, health care from day one, and a safe and inclusive workplace. We encouraged all of our employees to vote and hope they did so.”

... U.S. President Joe Biden at the end of February defended workers’ rights to form unions free from intimidation and pointed to voting in Alabama while not specifically mentioning Amazon... Amazon has mounted its own campaign, sending text messages urging current and also former workers to vote against forming a union and telling them that they might sacrifice certain benefits if the push succeeds, a notion the union has disputed.