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Workers walk toward an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York, on April 25, 2022. It's the second Amazon facility on Staten Island to vote on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union.

Amazon Labor Union fails to repeat victory in Staten Island Amazon warehouse election

4:28pm May 02, 2022

by Andrea Hsu

An Amazon sorting center on Staten Island in New York has voted against unionizing, a month after a larger Amazon warehouse across the street voted to join the Amazon Labor Union.

Chris Smalls started Amazon's 1st union. He's now heard from workers at 50 warehouses

7:50am April 06, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

The Amazon Labor Union was born Friday after an improbable victory for Chris Smalls over Amazon. Smalls and his friend Derrick Palmer spoke to NPR on Twitter Spaces.

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Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, takes part in an interview at the Amazon distribution center in the Staten Island borough of New York on Oct. 25, 2021, after earlier delivering "Authorization of Representation" forms to the National Lab

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He was fired by Amazon 2 years ago. Now he's the force behind the company's 1st union

8:44am April 02, 2022

Chris Smalls didn't rely on traditional labor groups for funding or organizing power. Instead he raised money through GoFundMe and talked to former coworkers at their bus stop and over S'mores.

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