LEXINGTON, Ky. — Amazon announced plans for a new delivery station coming to Lexington this year. 

“We're investing in the state of Kentucky, we're hiring more people in addition to our 18,000 full and part-time employees or workforce that's in the state. So really excited to continue to provide these job opportunities for people that are looking, looking for work,” said Andre Woodson, an Amazon spokesperson.

Woodson said the new location is a great opportunity to help those who many have lost their jobs during the pandemic.

“I think it’s terrific that Amazon is still providing job opportunities for those individuals that have been furloughed or laid off, and are looking for job opportunities currently,” Woodson said.

Woodson said the location is still in the building process, but will be completed by the end of 2021. Their focus is to hire residents within the Fayette County community. Woodson said they'll start the hiring process about two months before the opening day.

“We're excited to create a new state-of-the-art delivery station in Lexington, that provides hundreds of job opportunities and great pay benefits and a safe work environment for employees,” Woodson said.

Over the last few weeks, Spectrum News 1 Digital Reporter Adam K. Raymond has reached out and spoke with Amazon workers who support the idea of joining a union, after learning about the campaign that started in Bessemer, Alabama. 

“They all also acknowledged kind of what Amazon says themselves, which is that the company pays well and the company gives good benefits," Raymond said. "But still, the workers said things like, they often don't feel like they have a voice in decisions or I heard from several people that they have these really high production goals that lead them super stressed out and sometimes even them with injuries or aches and pains when they get home from work, and they think that, like, having an advocate could help them change things like that."