‘A marathon, not a sprint’: how Chris Smalls defied Amazon to form a union

Grassroots methods to woo coworkers to join the revolution' worked even as the company came for him with all its might

The revolution is here," said an exuberant Chris Smalls on a cloudy morning via a Google Meet call last week.

Clad in a black baseball cap and air pods, Smalls spoke with the Guardian less than a week after winning a historic victory over Amazon, the second largest US employer - and establishing the company's first ever union.