August 2, 2021

A U.S. labor board official has recommended a rerun of a landmark Amazon union election in Alabama, where employees had voted overwhelmingly against making their warehouse the online retailer’s first to organize in the United States. In the coming weeks, a regional director for the U.S. National Labor Relations Board will decide whether to order the rerun based on this recommendation, said an official on Monday with the board who asked not to be named. Amazon said it planned to appeal. “Our employees had a chance to be heard during a noisy time when all types of voices were weighing

  Hospitalizations from COVID-19 are surging in the Southern United States with some states seeing record numbers of patients as the country faces a wave of coronavirus infections fueled by the delta variant. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said Monday that looking ahead to Tuesday’s reported hospitalization numbers, there are “more hospitalizations than at any other point in the pandemic.” Edwards did not give the exact number of hospitalized patients, but said it was more than the official count of 1,984 that health officials announced Monday at noon. The news follows Florida’s announcement Sunday that more than 10,000 COVID-19 patients