Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to form the company’s first union in the U.S. last Friday, making a historic win for labor organizers everywhere. The union earned recognition in less than a year into its existence, and it overcame multiple arrests as well as millions that Amazon spent on anti-union consultants. Chris Smalls, founde ... Show More
Apr 2022
How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union
<p><i>This episode contains strong language. </i></p><p>A year and a half ago, the Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Karen Weise began examining labor practices at Amazon.</p><p>In the process, they met Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a warehouse in New ... Show More
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Dec 2022
How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union: An Update
<p><i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.</i></p><p>This year, we explored the story of Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a warehouse in New Yo ... Show More
43m 28s
Apr 2021
Amazon on course to defeat union effort, Goldman’s Deliveroo move
<p>Amazon looked on course to defeat a historic effort by workers to unionise an Alabama warehouse, and companies and countries around the world are weighing the Biden administration’s global corporate tax plan. Plus, the FT’s markets editor, Katie Martin, explains Goldman Sachs’ ... Show More
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