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“Eat the wealthy.” That’s what was emblazoned on the back of Chris Smalls’s red and black bomber jacket he wore during a White House meeting with President Biden back in May. The conversation got here after Smalls, 33, formed the Amazon Labor Union (or ALU), and made history leading the primary successful US union campaign at Amazon. Smalls’s unionizing efforts was prompted by his firing from an Amazon warehouse position where he pushed against inhumane hours, poor advantages and inadequate wages. Smalls’s rallying cry echoed the grievances of the greater than 800,000 Amazon staff, whose back-breaking labor helped contribute to the e-commerce giant’s $1322.24B net value. Briefly, he was David to the tech world’s Goliath. What’s much more remarkable about...