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Union organizer Christian Smalls celebrates with Amazon workers following Friday’s vote to unionize the Amazon Staten Island warehouse.Union organizer Christian Smalls celebrates with Amazon workers following Friday’s vote to unionize the Amazon Staten Island warehouse.Last modified on Sun 3 Apr 2022 08.

The company has repeatedly fired workers who speak out about unsafe working conditions or who even suggest that workers need a voice. Much of the credit for Friday’s victory over Amazon goes to Christian Smalls, whom Amazon fired in the spring of 2020 for speaking out about the firm’s failure to protect its warehouse workers from Covid. Smalls refused to back down. He went back and organized a union, with extraordinary skill and tenacity.

With consumer demand soaring, employers are desperate to hire. This has given American workers more bargaining clout than they’ve had in decades. Wages have climbed 5.6% over the past year.

 

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