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How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union: An Update

This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. This year, we explored the story of Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York City, who had embarked on an imp…

How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union

This episode contains strong language.  A year and a half ago, the Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Karen Weise began examining labor practices at Amazon. In the process, they met Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York, who had embarked on an improbable …

The Warehouse Workers Who Beat Amazon with Derrick Palmer

The Amazon warehouse floor is infamous for poor working conditions, but the workers themselves know it best. Recently, the workers of warehouse JFK8 in Staten Island successfully organized to gain the basic working conditions many of us take for granted. In the face of one of the largest companies …

May Day Special: A Union for the 21st Century

Listen to story:https://ia601408.us.archive.org/34/items/2026-04-28-RUWS/2026_04_28_Derrick_Palmer.mp3 Download: mp3 (Duration: 21:52) FEATURING DERRICK PALMER - The retail giant Amazon announced more than $200 billion in quarterly sales in its latest figures to investo…

Uniting Amazon Workers

Derrick Palmer, cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union and the author of Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century (Auwa Books, 2026), tells the story of organizing the first successful labor union for Amazon workers at the JFK8 Warehouse on Staten Island …

Derrick Palmer — Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the Twenty-First Century -with Afeni Evans

From the cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union, a definitive how-to guide to workplace organizing told through a David vs. Goliath chronicle for the ages. On April 1, 2022, the Amazon warehouse known as JFK8, in Staten Island, notched an improbable victory when its workers voted to become the company…

Bigfoot vs. The Union-Busting Machine

The real monster isn't hiding in the warehouse. It's in the scanner, the algorithm, the productivity metric, the union-busting meeting, the legal delay, and the idea that workers should be grateful just to survive. In Episode 27 of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with Derrick Palmer, c…

Bigfoot vs. The Union-Busting Machine

The real monster isn't hiding in the warehouse. It's in the scanner, the algorithm, the productivity metric, the union-busting meeting, the legal delay, and the idea that workers should be grateful just to survive. In Episode 27 of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with Derrick Palmer, c…

Chris Smalls — When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class - with Karen Attiah

From one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and a powerful call to arms on behalf of the working classIn the early days of the Covid pandemic, warehou…

Derrick Palmer: "The union was always the solution."

Today on The Gist, guest host Bryan Green shares an interview with Derrick Palmer, co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union and co-author of Handbook for the Revolution: Building a More Perfect Union for the 21st Century. Palmer reflects on his time working inside Amazon's JFK8 warehouse on Staten Isla…