‘The model is listening’: union’s win at Amazon hatched in a small apartment

A suburban two-bedroom apartment was the HQ from which Amazon's multimillion-dollar anti-union effort was defeated

The living room of the small two-bedroom apartment in Staten Island - sometimes called New York City's forgotten borough" - is overflowing with office supplies, mail, red union stickers, and flyers with information about unions.

It seems almost unbelievable that amid this chaos, and armed with just $120,000 that they raised on GoFundMe, its occupants, Amazon workers Brett Daniels and Connor Spence, helped successfully unionize workers at the nearby gargantuan 855,000-square-foot Amazon warehouse - the first of the company's warehouses in the US to vote for a union.