Region 10 of the NLRB set a date for the rerun election at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. For context, the Region ordered a new election after determining that the previous one — a first at any Amazon warehouse and one of the highest-profile union elections in decades — was corrupted by Amazon’s antiunion tactics. The rerun, which will be conducted entirely by mail, is scheduled to begin on Feb. 4. Votes will be tallied on March 28.

In the wake of the announcement, the union expressed concern that Amazon would accelerate its objectionable antiunion behavior in the coming days and criticized the Board for declining to impose “a number of remedies” the union requested which, in its view, “could have made the process fairer for workers.”

A UFCW local representing thousands of workers in Colorado and Wyoming rejected King Sooper’s “last, best, and final offer” on Tuesday, threatening to tee up a three-week strike involving nearly ten thousand employees across dozens of locations in the state. The tension between the parties is escalating — the union brought a lawsuit in federal court last month alleging that company improperly subcontracted unit work, to which the company responded with an unfair labor practice charge accusing the union of refusing to bargain in good faith.

In political news, President Biden delivered a powerful speech on Tuesday exhorting the Senate to eliminate the filibuster and pass legislation to protect voting rights. In forceful rhetoric, Biden framed the moment as a “defining” one and described the Senate as “a shell of its former self.” He expressed support for changing the institution’s rules in “whichever way they need to be changed” to preserve democratic federal elections. If “state legislatures can pass antivoting laws with simple majorities,” Biden reasoned, “the United States Senate should be able to protect voting rights by a simple majority.”

Since the filibuster has proved the graveyard of any NLRA reform efforts — urgently necessary if the labor movement is to reconstitute and revitalize itself — President Biden’s dramatic speech has obvious implications for the trajectory of organized labor.