Amazon, Black Worker Spar in Covid-Based Race Bias Class Appeal

A Black former Amazon employee will tell the Second Circuit Tuesday he’s qualified to lead a class race bias lawsuit alleging that the Covid-19 safety precautions provided to the mostly minority line workers at his Staten Island factory were inferior.

Christian Smalls argues that he has standing to sue and represent the proposed class of line workers. Smalls will also try to revive claims that his individual rights were violated when he was fired following a protest over Covid-19 safety that he led outside of the warehouse.

Smalls is the co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union, which workers at ...