Thousands Of Amazon Delivery Drivers At Seven Hubs Are On Strike

Thousands of proscription drivers who activity for Amazon third-party contractors are now connected strike, The New York Times reports. The workers are striking aft “Amazon’s repeated refusal to recreation nan norm and bargain pinch nan thousands of Amazon workers who organized pinch nan Teamsters,” according to a Teamsters spot release.

Workers are picketing astatine Amazon warehouses from Atlanta, New York City, San Francisco, Southern California, and Skokie, Ill., pinch different Amazon Teamsters “prepared to subordinate them,” nan Teamsters say. “Teamsters conception unions are too putting up superior picket lines astatine hundreds of Amazon Fulfillment Centers nationwide.”

The National Labor Relations Board issued a title against Amazon earlier this year, saying that Amazon and 1 of its third-party contractors are associated employers of proscription drivers and that it has “a ineligible activity to admit and bargain pinch nan Teamsters Union,” per different Teamsters spot release.

Amazon didn’t instantly reply to a petition for remark from The Verge. Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel shared nan pursuing relationship pinch New York City’s WPIX:

For overmuch than a twelvemonth now, nan Teamsters personification continued to intentionally mislead nan nationalist – claiming that they correspond ‘thousands of Amazon labour and drivers’. They don’t, and this is different effort to push a mendacious narrative. The truth is that nan Teamsters personification actively threatened, intimidated, and attempted to coerce Amazon labour and third-party drivers to subordinate them, which is forbidden and is nan taxable of aggregate pending unfair labour judge charges against nan union.

Amazon labour who personification organized pinch nan Teamsters voted past week to authorize a strike.