Amazon Workers Who Won a Union Their Way Open Labor Leaders’ Eyes The success of an independent drive has organized labor asking whether it should take more of a back seat.

On April 25th, workers at Amazon’s LDJ5 facility in Staten Island will start voting on whether to organize. This could be the Amazon Labor Union’s chance to prove it can keep winning.

Smalls, the only Black person on a crew hoping to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, was beaten by Israeli officers.

Amazon Labor Union member Tristan Lion Dutchin gestures as he waits for the voting results on April 1, 2022. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AP Photo)) This article appears in the May 2/9, 2022 issue.

Chris Smalls was among 21 others when he was singled out, detained, and beaten by Israeli forces on Saturday. The ...

Amazon Labor Union On April 1, 2022, Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, New York, made history by voting to unionize. Leading the charge against the second-largest US employer ...

Far from a liability that Amazon could use against the union campaign, the diversity of the Staten Island warehouse proved to be a strength. The story of the Amazon Labor Union is far from over.

The tally comes as a disappointment to the Amazon Labor Union, an upstart group founded by former warehouse supervisor Chris Smalls and his co-worker Derrick Palmer, who still works inside the ...

Amazon's union workers are aligning themselves with the Teamsters, overwhelmingly voting in favor of an affiliation. The union members voted 98.3% in favor of the affiliation, the International ...

Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls waits as workers cast their votes over whether or not to unionize in an election held outside an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island on March 25, 2022.

The grassroots labor union that made history last month when it formed the first union at an Amazon warehouse in the United States has lost a union election at a much smaller facility just across ...