Amazon: Walkout leader’s firing wasn’t due to his organizing efforts

Enlarge / Workers protest outside a massive Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island on Monday, March 30. (credit: New York Communities for Change)

Amazon has fired an employee after he helped organize a walkout of Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. The worker, Chris Smalls, says Amazon was retaliating against him for his workplace activism.

"Taking action cost me my job," Smalls said in a Monday interview on Bloomberg TV. "Because I tried to stand up for something that's right, the company decided to retaliate against me."

Amazon disputes that charge.

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