![]() If ALU win more stores, it could inspire a growing class of workers who are gathering in unions, not just at Amazon, but at other major employers like Starbucks or Apple to demand a better life quality. At the event to show off their new base of operations, LPO spoke with Smalls in an act that did not have the impact of the spring calls and at the same time it did not discourage the union leader.Īmazon is the second largest private employer in the country and it helps set the standard for basic working conditions at many US companies. "En Estados Unidos, hay un nuevo movimiento sindical liderado por latinos y afroamericanos"ĪLU's battle with Amazon is not over: on the contrary, they continue to work and are doing so now by opening their own headquarters in Staten Island. Smalls and his former colleagues, organized under the banner of the new Amazon Workers Union (ALU), surprised the world in early April by doing what many people thought was impossible: to lead America's first successful union campaign at Amazon, a tech giant that long viewed organizing workers as an existential threat to its business and did everything it could to stop it. ![]() Two of the most important names in American politics, Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Staten Island, the most forgotten neighborhood in New York to meet Smalls after he hit every newspaper's front page. The 33-year-old former Amazon warehouse process assistant, father of three and leader of a resurgent labor movement that is taking the country by storm, become a media star for his union feat, but it did not take him long to see that the fight would not be neither easy nor fast.
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