Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union makes inroads in right to work states

March 23, 2021

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which has about 100,000 members, including workers at Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s, is attempting to organize an Amazon.com warehouse in Alabama. If successful, it would build on the success the union has had in recent years organizing workers from so-called right to work states primarily in the Southeast.

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