Hello and welcome to the Current Affairs podcast, special Amazon Union episode.

This is your finance editor, Sparky, Abraham.

I'm here with contributing editor Eli Massey.

Hello, Eli.

And we have two special guests today that I'm very excited about.

First of all, we've got a friend of the pod, Max Alvarez.

Max is the editor-in-chief of the Real News Network, the host of the Working People podcast, and a serial guest contributor on Current Affairs. Hey, Max, how you doing?

Hey, buddy. Great to be back. Thanks for having us. Excellent. And then we've also got today Michael Foster. Michael Foster is the lead organizer for the RWDSU. Eli, remind me what that one stands for.

The retail wholesale and department store union. Yes. Well, there you go. On the ground in Bessemer,

Alabama, working to organize the Amazon warehouse there. And we are going to have an Amazon campaign

podcast and update from Mike,

who is there doing it. How you doing, Mike? Hey, I'm great, man. I'm great. Awesome. Thank you so much

for being here with us. You know, I think that most of the people who are listening to the podcast

probably have some notion of what's going on with the Amazon

campaign in Bessemer. But just in case anyone is completely like head in the sand, Mike, can you

give us a broad overview? You know, what's what, what is actually happening? What are you all trying to do?

Well, we're trying to organize Amazon to be a voice for the people in Besseima, Alabama. The people are needing a voice.

They need to be heard. So right now, that's what we're doing. Right now, we're at a voting.

We're doing a mailing ballot. The mail-in ballot would end March to 29th. So we're hoping for the best right now.

All right. So you are doing a ballot to basically form a union at one Amazon facility. Is that

right? Yes, sir. What kind of facility is it? Like, how many people are we talking about?

We're talking about 5,800 people. Okay. We're talking about a facility that is about 10 and 12 football fields beat.

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