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“I’m playing for a different team, and I’m with the people.” Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls discusses how the lack of humanity in Amazon’s hiring and firing practices led him to organize a warehouse workers’ union, despite all the odds against him. #DailyShow
The founder and president of the ALU wants workers to know his long history of dedication to Amazon and the workers, what has brought him to be leading this campaign to build the first Amazon labor union in the country on behalf of all Amazon workers
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