— Kim KellyLed by Chris Smalls, a former Amazon worker who’d been fired for protesting the company’s dearth of COVID-19 safety precautions, the workers filed for an NLRB election on October 25, 2021. “This is monumental for the workers,” Smalls told Reuters. “This is proof that you can stand up, fight back and organize your workplace.”
Replicated under Fair Use from Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly.