Derrick Palmer

Derrick Palmer is an American labor organizer and cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union which he launched with Christian Chris Smalls after Smalls was fired from Amazons JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island early in the COVID19 pandemic Palmer served as the ALUs vice president during the organizing drive that led to the unions landmark 2022 victory the first successful unionization of an Amazon facility in the companys history and continues to work at JFK8 He and Smalls were named to Times 100 Most Influential People of 2022 and Palmer is the author of Handbook for the Revolution Building a More Perfect Union for the TwentyFirst Century 2026