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Some warehouse workers of Amazon, the largest American e-commerce retailer with 750,000 employees, have organized for workplace improvements in light of the company's scrutinized labor practices and stance against unions. Worker actions have included work stoppages and have won concessions including increased pay, safety precautions, and time off.
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is a labor union specifically for Amazon workers, created on April 20, 2021. [1] On April 1, 2022, the Amazon workers at a warehouse in Staten Island, JFK8, backed by the ALU became the first unionized Amazon workers recognized by the National Labor Relations Board. [2] In June 2024 the union became affiliated with ...
Recorded April 2022. Christian Smalls (born July 4, 1988) is an American labor organizer known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization in Staten Island, a borough in New York City. He is the president and founder of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) since 2021. Smalls grew up in New Jersey and pursued a career as a rapper, touring briefly ...
July 30, 2024 at 3:48 PM. Workers at Amazon's only unionized warehouse in the U.S. elected new union leaders, according to a vote count completed Tuesday, marking the first major change for the ...
Amazon workers in Albany, N.Y., recently filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board backed by Smalls' grass-roots group. Smalls estimated nearly 100 workers at ...
Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house calls, sporting pro-union T-shirts and challenging anti-union messaging by Amazon-hired consultants as they try to ...
On Jan. 18, 2013, as the sun went down, Jeff Lockhart Jr. got ready for work. He slipped a T-shirt over his burly frame and hung his white work badge over his broad chest. His wife, Di-Key, was in the bathroom fixing her hair in micro-braids and preparing for another evening alone with her three sons.
The Congress of Essential Workers was launched as the COVID19 pandemic reached the United States, on May 1 2020. [1] [2] The founders were all current or recent Amazon employees Chris Smalls, Gerald Bryson, Jordan Flowers and Derrick Palmer. [1] The organisation was created to advocate for essential workers, with special focus on those who were ...