Amazon labor organizer Chris Smalls leads a rally on the eve of the union election for the LDJ5 Amazon Sort Center on April 24, 2022 in Staten Island, New York.
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An earlier version of this article appeared at LaborPress. It has been updated by the author and republished here by permission.
Organizers for the independent Amazon Labor Union, which stunned the world when it won a union election to represent several thousand workers at the corporate behemoth's facility in Staten Island, New York, are now waging a wider battle against Amazon's labor practices.
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