Editing Chris Smalls

'''Christian Smalls''' is an American labor organizer known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization in Staten Island, NYC. He is the president and the founder of the [[Amazon Labor Union]].

== Amazon Labor Unoin ==
On April 20, 2021, Smalls established the Amazon Labor Union (ALU)<ref>{{News citation|author=Steven Greenhouse|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=Amazon fired him – now he's trying to unionize 5,000 workers in New York|url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/amazon-workers-staten-island-christian-smalls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217213202/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/amazon-workers-staten-island-christian-smalls|archive-date=February 17, 2022}}</ref>, backed by his labor-activist group, TCOEW.<ref>{{News citation|author=Nat Rubio-Licht|title=Amazon's union fight: Here's what's happening now|date=https://www.protocol.com/amazon-union}}</ref>

On April 1, 2022, the workers at JFK8 voted 2,654–2,131 in favor of the union.<ref>{{News citation|author=Jodi Kantor and Karen Weise|title=How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/business/amazon-union-christian-smalls.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403000937/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/business/amazon-union-christian-smalls.html}}</ref> Smalls told a crowd that "We did whatever it took to connect with these workers" and "I hope that everybody's paying attention now because a lot of people doubted us."

== References ==
[[Category:Labor organizers]]