Chris Smalls and Derrick Palmer, the organizers of Amazon’s first labor union, gave speeches at the College of Industrial and Labor Relations’ Union Days event to give advice to students.
The labor action against $1 a day pay and work conditions is taking place at two facilities in California operated by the GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., Alejandra Quintero reports.
By Alejandra Quintero
Labor Notes
At two federal detention centers
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