Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama are getting a new vote on whether to form the company's first unionized warehouse in the United States.

A U.S. labor board official is ordering a revote after an agency review found Amazon improperly pressured warehouse staff to vote against joining a union, tainting the original election enough to scrap its results. The decision was issued ... by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board. Amazon is expected to appeal.

... The union drive is being led by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Its president, Stuart Appelbaum, hailed [the] development: "Today's decision confirms what we were saying all along – that Amazon's intimidation and interference prevented workers from having a fair say in whether they wanted a union in their workplace."

Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, noted that employees at the warehouse overwhelmingly chose not to join the union in the previous vote. "It's disappointing that the NLRB has now decided that those votes shouldn't count. As a company, we don't think unions are the best answer for our employees."