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.

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.

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 ...

The Amazon Labor Union, which made history in April by unionizing the first Amazon warehouse in the US, lost its latest campaign today, at a facility in Schodack, New York. Workers voted 406 to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Labor Amazon Workers Defied Conventional Wisdom—And Won a Union The Amazon Labor Union broke many of the traditional rules of labor organizing, while making history. Luis Feliz Leon April 13, 2022 ...

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.

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.

Chris Smalls, a leader of the Amazon Labor Union, leads a march of Starbucks and Amazon workers and their allies to the homes of their CEOs to protest union busting on Labor Day, Sept. 5, 2022, in ...

On May 1, 2020 —International Workers’ Day — Smalls, Bryson, Flowers and Palmer launched the Congress of Essential Workers, a predecessor to what would become the Amazon Labor Union.