Chris Smalls, who had been working at Amazon since 2015, found himself in the spotlight when he organized a work stoppage at his Staten Island warehouse in a bid for better protection and compensation for Amazon warehouse employees. He then organized 01 May demonstrations at his company, as well as at Walmart and Target, in the states of California, New York and New Jersey. Amazon’s management terminated his employment contract for his failure to comply with the group’s social distancing...
United States: one of Amazon’s leading activists takes up the cause of essential workers
Chris Smalls, who sees himself as "the whistleblower fired by Amazon" for demanding more protection from Covid-19, is creating his own defense movement called The Congress Essential Workers to help ‘essential workers’ at Amazon and other companies, supermarkets, hypermarkets, and e-commerce companies that have been maintaining activity during the coronavirus pandemic.
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