As the historic rerun election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama unfolds, several employees opposing the organizing effort explained their misgivings to Buzzfeed, revealing anxiety that collective bargaining might undermine their pay and benefits. The interviews reflect the potency of the unlawful antiunion tactics Amazon has unleashed, which have rattled employees and left many “afraid of losing pay, afraid of losing benefits, or their job,” as one organizer lamented. Ballots were mailed to thousands of eligible employees last month. They will be counted in a couple weeks.

On Tuesday the Senate overwhelmingly approved the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act, a bill passed by the House last month. The measure, endorsed by the major postal unions, aims to shore up the Postal Services’ finances. The agency has been operating at a loss for several years. Experts explain that the bill, the result of bipartisan compromise, is unlikely to significantly alleviate the problems plaguing the Service, as it fails to root causes of its financial difficulties. Even so, unions representing hundreds of thousands of letter carriers embraced the Act’s passage, describing it as “a monumental victory” for their members and “one of the most critical pieces of postal legislation in modern history.”