Amazon Labor Union leader Chris Smalls says it's time for the firm 'to come to the table and negotiate'.
Chris Smalls led workers in New York who won a contest in April 2022 to establish the first Amazon union in the USIt has been almost a year since workers at an Amazon warehouse in New York voted to start the company's first-ever labour union in the US - an historic labour victory that won global attention. But the fight remains unfinished.Efforts to organise workers at other warehouses, including one just across the street, have failed.
"We know we're dealing with a trillion dollar company that is going to spend X amount of dollars to try to stop a union from taking place so the timing is just about what we expected," he says. "As we've said since the beginning, we don't believe this election process was fair, legitimate, or representative of the majority of what our team wants."The state of play is indicative of the ongoing questions about the future of America's labour movement.
And in the private sector, the number of workers who are members of unions actually increased by nearly 200,000 last year - the first rise in nearly a decade, driven by gains in sectors including transportation and warehousing. The law does not even have a mechanism to force companies to agree a contract with workers, she says.
She says companies often successfully sap momentum from labour movements simply by running down the clock.
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