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#Football manager 2015 amazon series#

Smalls contacted local politicians, health officials, and Amazon's human resources (HR), after an extremely ill colleague was allowed to come to work with symptoms while waiting on the results of a COVID-19 test. Amazon has said "We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment in any form," and that they are working to cut their injury rates down and that they "want to be healthy and safe". He alleges Amazon has issues with safety protocols, citing the injury rate, ageism, sexism, racism, and discrimination against caregivers. Smalls said that he liked working at the company for a while, until he started to recognize what he alleged to be "deep systemic" issues within the company. Smalls said that he was transferred because of good performance, but applied for management positions 49 times during his career, and was never selected for the promotion, which he believes was reflective of systemic racial discrimination he observed in the company. He was transferred to the Staten Island warehouse (JFK8) when it opened in 2018, and worked as an assistant manager. He transferred briefly to a warehouse in Connecticut, where he was fired and reinstated after an appeal. Smalls joined Amazon in 2015 as a picker in New Jersey. See also: Criticism of Amazon § Treatment of workers He says his friends say of him now, "I guess your voice was meant for something else." Smalls also worked as a warehouse worker at FedEx and Target.

#Football manager 2015 amazon series#

He then gave up his music career pursuit to support his children with a series of jobs, including at Walmart, Home Depot, and MetLife Stadium from 2012 to 2015.

He dropped out because he said he thought was "hot shit" and started making music as a rapper, touring briefly with Meek Mill. Smalls attended a community college in Florida, but missed his home after one semester, and returned to New York to study sound engineering at the Institute of Audio Research. He had hoped to play in the National Basketball Association, until he was run over in a hit and run while working a job as a car attendant. As a teenager, he began working jobs and played basketball, football, and ran track and field at Hackensack High School. Smalls was born and raised in Hackensack, New Jersey by a single mother who worked as an administrator at a hospital.

2.2.1 The Congress of Essential Workers.

He was subsequently named one of Time's most influential people of 2022. The JFK8 warehouse voted in favor of unionizing with representation of the ALU on April 1, 2022. Smalls and the state of New York also sued Amazon for unlawful termination.Īfter his termination, Smalls founded a worker-activist group called The Congress of Essential Workers, which later backed the formation of the ALU on April 20, 2021. Several government officials criticized the company and demanded the firing be investigated. Smalls had been exposed to the disease on March 11, 2020, but was not notified or required to quarantine until March 28, after the incubation period had ended. He was terminated the same day for what the company stated was violating the company's social distancing policies during a required, paid quarantine. On March 30, 2020, Smalls organized a walkout to protest what he said was a lack of proper safety protocols around COVID-19 exposures at the Staten Island warehouse he worked at, Amazon JFK8. Smalls grew up in New Jersey and pursued a career as a rapper, touring briefly with Meek Mill, but gave this up to support his children by working in the service industry and in warehouses. He is the president and founder of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) since 2021. Christian Smalls (born 1988 or 1989) is an American labor organizer known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization in Staten Island, a borough in New York City.