Still smarting from when Amazon fired him last year, the 32-year-old is spearheading an effort to unionize more than 5,000 workers at four Amazon facilities in Staten Island, including a giant warehouse. We’re not going to make their mistakes.” Smalls promises to have a bigger, stronger workers’ committee to educate and mobilize workers to support his Amazon Labor Union. “They said they’d make me the whole face of the union effort against Amazon,” Smalls told the Guardian. The tent – with a sign saying, “Sign Your Authorization Cards Here” – stands alongside a public bus stop outside Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse. Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, said, “Amazon workers need unions.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2021 06:56 UTC