Three years after he was fired from Amazon, Chris Smalls shares with Salon why he is fighting for Amazon workers to get a union contract, as the founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union. Smalls' journey from warehouse worker, to local organize...
Three years after he was fired from Amazon, Chris Smalls shares with Salon why he is fighting for Amazon workers to get a union contract, as the founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union. Smalls' journey from warehouse worker, to local organizer, to now the international face of Amazon workers' rights movement is one of the subjects of the documentary film, "Americonned," available on VOD.
Smalls shares what working conditions are like at an Amazon fulfillment center. "It's sort of like solitary confinement," he said. "You only have a short amount of time for breaks." And his unpleasant experiences with founder Jeff Bezos. The main goal for now, though, is getting a union contract, Smalls said. "We want a contract and that's what we're fighting for right now—to have that be the first contract in American history for Amazon workers."