'You make Amazon $638 million a day!' Christian Smalls, who leads the independent amazonlabor, told workers this week. 'It's time we get paid our fair share.'
"You make Amazon $638 million a day!" Christian Smalls, who leads the independent Amazon Labor Union, told workers this week."It's time we get paid our fair share."Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York began voting Friday to whether or not to join the Amazon Labor Union, an independent group started by an employee who drew national attention to working conditions at the company in 2020.
Amazon Labor Union was started by Chris Smalls after he was fired by the company. After the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020, Smalls led his coworkers at JFK8 in a walkout over what employees said was a lack of safety precautions.that public relations officials at Amazon devised a plan to publicly smear Smalls as"not smart, or articulate" to distract from the company's safety record.
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