At the press conference held by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) the day the result was announced in the Amazon union election in Bessemer, Alabama, one of the warehouse workers said, “I have to go to work tomorrow.”

What he meant was that it doesn’t make sense to discuss whether this is the end of the fight. The same workers in Bessemer who were building a union are still doing so. The vote breakdown was 1798 against unionizing and 738 in favor. Of the roughly 500 challenged ballots, RWDSU president Stuart Appelbaum says over 400 were challenged by Amazon, meaning it’s more accurate to say that over 1,000 workers voted to unionize. Those workers got a front-row view of the explosive power of capital, and now they clock into work with that knowledge.

Union fights don’t end when the cameras go away. The Bessemer organizing committee rallied on Sunday and is continuing to fight. RWDSU has filed objections to Amazon’s actions during the election and believes a rerun election is likely. It is hard to win a rerun after workers have been exposed to the boss’s scare tactics, though not impossible. One worker at a different Amazon warehouse who contacted me last week didn’t even mention Bessemer — he wanted to discuss a completely different matter pertaining to his own workplace. As Darryl Richardson, the Amazon worker who started the union drive — and had previously been part of an organizing drive at a Mercedes seat supplier in Tuscaloosa — said, “the fight isn’t over, 1 more round.”