Joe Biden is staying silent as Amazon workers try to unionize in Alabama

After promising to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen,” Joe Biden is staying silent as Amazon workers try to unionize in Alabama. It could be because he’s just being Joe Biden — or it could be because of the massive leverage and influence the company exerts through its size.

Right now, Bessemer, Alabama is the site of maybe the most high-profile union drive in the United States, as close to six thousand Amazon warehouse workers vote on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). A successful vote could make them the first unionized Amazon workers in the country, blow a hole in the South’s longtime resistance to unionization, and spur similar organizing efforts across the country, widening the bounds of possibility for millions of US workers. Not surprisingly, the company is doing everything it can to beat back what is also, in effect, one of the most important fights for racial equality of the decade so far.

Yet President Joe Biden is missing in action.

Despite a political career and presidential campaign built in large part around the image of a hardscrabble, working-class union man “from belt buckle to shoe sole” — and despite pledging to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen” — Biden has stayed silent on the unionization battle, choosing not to even condemn Amazon’s union-busting tactics. It’s in stark contrast to the White House’s outspoken support for embattled Office of Management and Budget nominee (and union-buster) Neera Tanden, with officials “working the phones” to save the controversial nominee from herself.

This silence isn’t out of ignorance, as if that possibility could even be seriously considered. Labor leaders brought the issue to the White House’s attention after Biden’s inauguration, and a “senior advisor to Biden” is keeping tabs on the effort, according to Reuters. This has understandably disappointed RWDSU leadership, progressive activists, and those involved in the effort.

It Didn’t Take Long for Joe Biden to Betray the Labor Movement

There are various possible reasons why Biden is keeping mum. His supporters would argue he wants to avoid the appearance of impropriety, particularly if the National Labor Relations Board he appoints ends up having to rule on the matter — though this has never been a concern for anti-union conservatives like former senator Bob Corker (R-TN), Tennessee governor Bill Lee, or former president Ronald Reagan, all of whom have freely waded into major labor conflicts when it meant crushing workers.

There’s also the fact that Biden’s union-friendly image is built on remarkably little beyond affable backslapping and some well-placed cultural signifiers. For a large chunk of his career, Biden championed policies vehemently opposed by unions, including entitlement cuts, constitutionally required austerity, and the dismantling of welfare; and has betrayed labor with his votes in favor of NAFTA and normalizing trade relations with China. For a time, his rating from the AFL-CIO was as low as neoliberal Sen. Gary Hart, whom organized labor despised.

But there’s also the fact of what Amazon is, and how it operates.

First and foremost, there is, of course, the money. According to a Reuters analysis, after Microsoft, it was Amazon senior executives who gave Biden the most donations during the Democratic primaries, while the company and its employees were the fifth-highest contributors to his candidate campaign committee.

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