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Good morning for the financial times. Today is Tuesday, May 3rd, and this is your FT News Briefing.

US Central Bankers are meeting today amid expectations for a half-point interest rate hike.

Amazon workers voted no to the latest attempt to unionize a warehouse.

This is a major, major setback. Plus, demand for wind energy is soaring, but that's not translating

into big profits. I'm Jess Smith, in for Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Amazon warehouse workers in New York City have rejected an effort to form a union.

It's a very different outcome the last month when organizers succeeded in unionizing a warehouse

just across the street. I asked the FT's Taylor Nicole Rodgers why one facility voted yes,

and the other no. I think a lot of labor leaders are going to spend the rest of the year trying to

figure that out, but if I had to make one guess logistically, it's that the leaders of this

Amazon labor union were actually all employees at the facility across the street, the one where they

won last month. So just logistically, it would be harder for them to make inroads at this facility,

get to know people, engage workers, those kinds of things, especially in the face of really fierce

opposition from Amazon. So Taylor, we've got these two cases in New York with split results,

and we still don't have a result from another Amazon union battle from last year. That's the one

in Bessemer, Alabama. Amazon's still challenging those results. But does this say anything about the

broader effort to unionize at Amazon? I think it just shows how difficult it is. A lot of people

last month were saying, oh, we're at this huge moment. We're in a new labor market. Everything is

going to be so much better for workers, but I think this just goes to show how logistically

difficult it is to pull off a victory like the one they saw last month. And just for my conversations

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