Angelika Maldonado

Biography

Angelika Maldonado is a labor organizer and former Amazon warehouse worker who became a prominent leader of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) campaign at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York.

She served as chairwoman of the ALU Workers Committee and helped organize coworkers during the successful 2022 union drive. At the time, she was reported as a 27-year-old packer. Maldonado and other rank-and-file organizers built support through workplace conversations, distributing union materials, organizing break-room outreach, and countering Amazon’s anti-union campaign. The JFK8 vote resulted in 2,654 workers voting for the union and 2,131 against.

Maldonado described the campai...