North Carolinian Amazon workers voted “no” on unionization.

Local organizers built a multiracial, multigenerational union with grassroots energy and tenacity. But Amazon is too big to beat through site-by-site organizing and striking.

It was the second such vote Amazon faced in as many months, after a majority of workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods location opted to join a union, the first at the grocery chain.

The outcome was a setback for workers trying to score a second election success at an Amazon facility. The union vowed to keep trying to organize.

An upstart union in North Carolina alleged Amazon interfered with the vote counting process on Saturday at a warehouse near Raleigh.

The outcome came weeks after workers at a Whole Foods Market store in Pennsylvania voted to unionize, leading to the first successful entry of organized labor into the grocery chain, which Amazon owns.

Amazon workers at a warehouse in North Carolina voted against forming a union, another setback in the movement’s efforts against a company and state that is generally hostile to organizing.