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

<p><i>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.</i></p><p>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 improbable attempt to create the company’s first union and succeeded.</p><p>Today, we return to their story and learn about the current state of their organizing effort.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jodi-kantor" target="_blank"><strong>Jodi Kantor</strong></a>, an investigative reporter for The New York Times; and <strong>Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer</strong>, warehouse workers who led the first successful unionization attempt at Amazon.</p><p><strong>Background reading</strong></p><ul><li>Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer won the first successful unionization effort at any Amazon warehouse in the United States, one of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/business/amazon-union-christian-smalls.html" target="_blank">most significant labor victories in a generation</a>.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>