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Still smarting from when Amazon fired him last year, the 32-year-old is spearheading an effort to unionize more than 5,000 workers at four Amazon facilities in Staten Island, including a giant warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Smalls is taking a highly unusual route in pursuing this goal; he has founded an independent union, the Amazon Labor Union, convinced that a new union comprising only Amazon workers is the smartest way to rally Amazon employees behind a union after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/09\/amazon-union-vote-result-latest-news-bessemer-alabama-plant\">crushing defeat<\/a> of an effort to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/04\/amazon-workers-staten-island-christian-smalls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Smalls is taking on the fiercely anti-union colossus , convinced that a union of only Amazon workers is the smartest way to rally Amazon employees Christian Smalls has taken on the biggest challenge of his life. 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