'We’re the ones who are suffering in the businesses you’re talking about,' Amazon union leader Christian Smalls told senators Thursday on Capitol hill. 'You should listen because we represent your constituents as well.'
After testifying at a Senate Budget Committee hearing titled “Should Taxpayer Dollars Go to Companies that Violate Labor Laws?,” which focused on Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -7.56%, Smalls went to the White House, met President Joe Biden and took part in a discussion with Vice President Kamala Harris, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and other worker organizers. Biden tweeted the following: “Today, I met with grassroots worker organizers to thank them for their leadership in organizing unions.
After leading the first Amazon warehouse to unionize in New York’s Staten Island last month, Smalls and the ALU are coming off a loss this week at another Staten Island warehouse they tried to organize. But the spotlight on Smalls is keeping the attention on his and other workers’ cause. Also: Unions’ push at Amazon, Apple and Starbucks could be ‘most significant moment in the American labor movement’ in decades
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