The dangerous unselfishness of the Amazon labor union leaders
, but he was also laying out a blueprint for fighting economic injustice throughout the country.
And somehow, by the time Amazon workers had voted to form the union on Friday, both men had come to personify King’s call for a fearless commitment to economic justice. Some might have decided that a public relations fight with a corporation that owned media was a no-win situation. Not Smalls or Palmer. Smalls set up a union organizing shop at a bus stop near the Staten Island warehouse while Palmer continued working — and organizing — on the inside.“I’ve been eating and sleeping out of what I call my union van for the past 10 months,” Smalls said in the YouTube interview.
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