As the president of the Amazon Labor Union celebrated victory for unionizing a Staten Island warehouse, he tore into Rep. for backing out at the last minute from attending a pro-labor rally and slow-walking her support for the movement. 'Any message for AOC specifically?' news outlet Status Coup asked Chris Smalls, the organizer behind the successful unionization of the first Amazon warehouse in the country. 'Hell no, I'm not giving her no... she don't deserve this moment,' he said. Amazon has for decades deployed aggressive tactics to bust unionization efforts, and with very little funding, the effort by Smalls and his team to unionize was a longshot. But with the political and economic winds in their favor - a tight labor market and a pro-union National Labor Relations board under President Biden, employees at the fulfillment center known as JFK 8 voted in support of the Amazon Labor Union.
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