Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Leads Rally for Fashion Workers Act

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With less than a week left in the New York State Senate’s legislative session, the Model Alliance and other supporters of the Fashion Workers Act recruited Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls to lead a downtown rally in New York Friday morning.

Alliance founder Sara Ziff noted his commitment to ensuring that every worker deserves transparency, fairness and basic respect in the workplace. She added, “He is a once in a generation leader and we are so grateful to have his support.”

“This is a day where we take a stance,” he said, noting how models and creatives in the crowd were among those who have been exploited. “We have to stand together, because at the end of the day we’re all workers no matter what industry you’re in. Fromto the runway, we’re all workers at the end of the day. We deserve our fair share.

Calling on all elected officials to pay attention to this issue as well as everyone in the New York City community, Smalls said, “We have to pay attention to what’s been going on for years. Enough is enough. We’re all tired of being exploited and the transparency is not there. We’re not just going to stand here today and talk about it. We’re going to take action.

Smalls continued, “Just imagine if we all stopped going to work…if we said, ‘You know what? We’re not going to work. We’re not going to hit the runways, do your makeup or style you until you give us what we want.’ That’s what we have to do from here on out. We can’t allow them to keep doing exactly what they’ve been doing for decades. We have to put an end to that.”

 

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