The victory that Amazon workers won in Staten Island has been an inspiration for millions of people all over this country. They took on one of the most powerful corporations in this country, owned by one of the wealthiest people in this country — a corporation that spent millions and millions of dollars trying to prevent a union. With a grassroots effort, a locally organized union with almost no financial resources, they beat Amazon. That is remarkable, and from the bottom of my heart, I want to congratulate them.

All across this country, people are saying, “Whoa. If these guys at Amazon are taking on that company, we can do it too.” As Nelson Mandela said, “Everything is impossible until it is done.” You did it. Already, there are Amazon warehouses all over the country that want more information as to how you did it. We’re looking at a national, sweeping movement.

I think that in America today — and you are helping to lead the effort — people are sick and tired of corporate greed. You work for a company owned by a man who is worth $180 billion. He has spent $500 million on a yacht. He has a mansion with twenty-five bathrooms. And yet he is continuing to squeeze his workers as hard as he can, and to fight the ability of workers to come together for decent wages, decent benefits, decent schedules, and decent working conditions.