Where does the Amazon union effort go from here?

This is just the beginning. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [View on the web]( [Recode]( [Click to view images]( [The Amazon union vote is over. Here's what happens now.]( After the historic union vote at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, failed last week, it's easy to imagine that some organizers would feel discouraged. The vote was not that close. Amazon is being accused of illegal union-busting tactics, and the union organizers are already challenging the outcome. But elsewhere in the United States, the apparent defeat may turn out to be something to rally behind. "Although we may not have gotten the results we wanted this time around, this doesn't discourage the workers of Amazon,” Christian Smalls, a former Amazon assistant warehouse manager who the New York attorney general says was unlawfully fired for his labor activism and is now helping organize a union drive on Staten Island, told Recode. "If anything, it motivates. We believe it's possible even more so than before, so I still consider this a victory for Bessemer to spark the fuse which ignited us all to be talking about unions again in this country." Recode's Jason Del Rey spoke with a number of Amazon organizers, and reports that the Teamsters might be behind a new union drive. [Click to view images]( [Introducing Down to Earth, our new project on the biodiversity crisis]( Why a reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of an ecological catastrophe is so badly needed. [ Eliza Barclay and Brian Anderson / [Vox]( ] [Click to view images]( [Apple working on combined TV box, speaker to revive home efforts]( Apple has trailed Amazon and Google in the connected home market. [ Mark Gurman / [Bloomberg]( ] [Click to view images]( [Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion]( It's Microsoft's second-biggest acquisition since buying LinkedIn. [ James Vincent / [The Verge]( ] [Click to view images]( [NFTs arrive in the watch world]( The first purely digital timepieces have been offered to bidders, but will their auctions become a watershed moment or a bubble? Only time will tell. [ Nazanin Lankarani / [New York Times]( ] [Click to view images]( [Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens]( A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform. [ Julia Carrie Wong / [The Guardian]( ] [This is Cool Section Title] [What it looks like when a bowler picks up a 7-10 split]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Facebook]( Twitter [Instagram]( [Recode by Vox]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences](, or [unsubscribe]( to stop receiving emails from Vox Media. View our [Privacy Notice]( and our [Terms of Service](. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved.