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☆ Dissident Group Wins Amazon Union Leadership Vote
  + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Noam Scheiber | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A dissident group has won control of the Amazon Labor Union, the only union in the country that formally represents Amazon warehouse workers, election results on Tuesday showed. The union won a representation vote at a Staten Island warehouse in 2022 but has yet to negotiate a contract as Amazon contests the outcome. A leader of the dissident group, Connor Spence, will take over, succeeding the founding president, Christian Smalls, who chose not to run for re-election. The result was announced by Mr. Spence’s group and confirmed by Mr. Smalls. Mr. Spence’s group brought a lawsuit last year to force leadership elections within the union.
Persons: Connor Spence, Christian Smalls, Spence, Mr, Smalls, Spence’s Organizations: Amazon Labor Union, Mr Locations: Staten Island
☆ Amazon Union Dissidents, in Challenge to Leader, Move to Force Vote
  + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Noam Scheiber | More About Noam Scheiber | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
On Friday, the reform caucus sent the union’s leadership a letter laying out its proposal to hold prompt elections, saying it would go to court Monday if the leadership didn’t embrace the proposal. The group said in its letter that enacting the proposal could “mean the difference between an A.L.U. which is strong, effective, and a beacon of democracy in the labor movement” and “an A.L.U. which, in the end, became exactly what Amazon warned workers it would become: a business that takes away the workers’ voices.”Mr. Smalls said in his text that the union leadership had worked closely with its law firm to ensure that its actions were legal, as well as with the U.S. Labor Department. Jeanne Mirer, a lawyer for the union, wrote to a lawyer for the reform caucus that the lawsuit was frivolous and based on falsehoods.
Persons: Connor Spence, Brett Daniels, Brima, ” Mr, Smalls, Jeanne Mirer, Spence, ” Organizations: Amazon, U.S . Labor Department Locations: Staten
☆ Amazon Union President Chris Smalls Seen Fighting Worker in Video
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Katherine Long | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +27 min
On the night of December 5, the president of the Amazon Labor Union pummeled another union member. Some longtime Amazon Labor Union organizers decided to begin organizing on their own, without Smalls. All three said they believe in Smalls' mission and support the goals of the Amazon Labor Union, but worry about Smalls' ability to lead. Amazon Labor Union members consoled each other after the union lost the vote at its second warehouse, LDJ5, last April. One purpose of the organization appears to be to raise funds for the Amazon Labor Union, according to its certificate of incorporation.
☆ Amazon suspends 50 workers who refused to work after warehouse fire
  + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —Amazon suspended dozens of workers at its only unionized warehouse on Tuesday, one day after they organized a work stoppage following a fire at the facility. About 50 workers at the facility in Staten Island, New York were suspended with pay, according to Connor Spence, one of the suspended workers. Spence is a picker at the warehouse, known as JFK8, and the secretary treasurer for the Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots workers group behind the successful union push. The incident in Staten Island also comes about a week ahead of a separate union election – also organized by the Amazon Labor Union – at an Amazon facility near Albany, New York. According to Spence, the roughly 50 workers at JFK8 have been suspended with pay until Amazon conducts an investigation into what happened.
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