Amazon's Staten Island warehouse workers file petition for union election – NLRB

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Chris Smalls, a former employee at the warehouse, led the effort to collect the 2,000 signatures needed to petition regulators for a vote to organize.

For the last 6 months, workers at the Staten Island warehouse called “JFK8” and other nearby Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) facilities have been organizing to form an independent union called the Amazon Labor Union (ALU).