Christian Smalls: Former Amazon Employee Sues The Trillion Dollar Company Over Pandemic Working Conditions

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Fired Amazon worker Christian Smalls files federal lawsuit against the retail giant for COVID working conditions.

Today I filed a Class Action lawsuit in the state of NY on behalf of all @Amazon employees and all essential workers that was unprotected all across the world during this pandemic. as I said in the beginning it’s not Amazon vs Chris Smalls it’s Amazon vs the People @JeffBezos

— Christian Smalls (@Shut_downAmazon) November 12, 2020

In a proposed class action filed in Brooklyn federal court, Christian Smalls accused Amazon of failing to provide needed protective gear to its predominantly minority workforce, subjecting them to inferior working conditions than its mainly white managers.

Smalls lawyers tell Daniel Medina the civil suit is on behalf of thousands of workers whose lives have been “endangered by Amazon’s failure to protect them during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Christian Smalls was fired in March after he helped organize a walkout at a Staten Island warehouse in protest over a lack of PPE and hazard pay. A leaked memo, obtained by VICE News, revealed Amazon execs discussed plan to smear Smalls in an effort to undermine workers organizing.