Amazon union leader flies in to help UK strikers ‘kick down the door’

Chris Smalls, who set up the retailer’s first union in New York, came to Coventry to back its workers in their pay dispute

The leader of Amazon’s first union has made his first trip outside the United States to support striking workers at the online retail giant’s Coventry warehouse.

Chris Smalls, who helped coordinate a successful unionisation drive at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, in April 2022, travelled to the UK last week to provide advice to British workers as they try to gain recognition from the company.