The failed unionization push of Amazon workers at a warehouse in Alabama is highlighting some of the challenges facing organized labor in the U.S.

A vote by Amazon workers in Bessemer on whether to unionize failed on Friday by a more than 2-to-1 margin, highlighting some of the challenges facing organized labor in the US.

Amazon referred an inquiry from DailyMail.com to a company blog post, which read in part: 'It’s easy to predict the union will say that Amazon won this election because we intimidated employees, but that’s not true. .

And Amazon didn’t win—our employees made the choice to vote against joining a union,' the company said.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who helped block a massive Amazon expansion in New York City, voiced her support for the union push in Bessemer.

Terri Sewell speaks to media at the entrance to Amazon facility as she arrives as a member of a congressional delegation to show her support for workers in the union vote.

In one of the mandatory meetings, presentations included assertions that union leaders used membership dues for improper purposes such as buying expensive cars and taking vacations, a former employee at the company's Bessemer fulfillment center told Reuters.

But some warehouse workers involved in the Bessemer battle pointed to other shortcomings in the union drive. .

'Amazon is not perfect, there are flaws, but we are committed to correcting those flaws and management has been, thus far, on board with us,' William Stokes, an Amazon worker at the Bessemer warehouse, said at a panel organized by the company.

Denean Plott, 56, who picked customer orders at the warehouse until March and voted for the union, said, 'It is a good paying job.

The setup of Amazon's warehouse itself may have also tipped the vote in the retailer's favor.

The setup of Amazon's warehouse itself may have also tipped the vote in the retailer's favor, with the huge space unfavorable to social gatherings and organizing.

In each of those cases, as at Amazon, union leaders bet that workers unhappy with wages and working conditions would jump at the chance to have a union go toe-to-toe with management

The retail workers' union struggled in Bessemer with some of the same challenges that carmakers previously hurled at the auto workers' union, known as the UAW. 

Car company officials made much of the conviction of several UAW leaders on charges of embezzling union funds, for instance

In December, Amazon lawyers filed lengthy exhibits with regulators delineating thousands of additional individual employees at the Bessemer warehouse they said should be allowed to vote in the election, beyond the 1,500 the union originally proposed

The union also had the extra time, and garnered support from U.S