Amazon Labor Union (ALU) members voted to affiliate with the Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters in a transfer they hope will carry new life to a yearslong wrestle to safe union contracts for Amazon warehouse employees.
“We’re now stronger than ever earlier than.”
That signifies that a brand new ALU-Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Native 1 will characterize some 5,500 Amazon warehouse employees at JFK8. If some other Amazon warehouses in New York Metropolis vote to unionize, Native 1 would have jurisdiction for his or her employees as nicely.
“On behalf of the Amazon Labor Union, I’m pleased with our members selecting a path to victory. We’re now stronger than ever earlier than,” ALU president Chris Smalls stated in a press launch. “Having the assist of 1.3 million Teamsters to tackle Amazon offers us great employee energy and the alternatives to demand higher circumstances for our members and, most significantly, to safe a contract at JFK8.”
Amazon employees on the firm’s greatest US air cargo hub, KCVG in Kentucky, additionally voted to affiliate with the Teamsters earlier this month. However up to now, JFK8 remains to be the one Amazon warehouse to have efficiently voted to unionize.
“The Teamsters set the usual with our settlement defending 340,000 UPS warehouse employees and drivers on this business. You may be sure that we are going to maintain Amazon to those similar requirements, and never the opposite manner round,” Teamsters common president Sean O’Brien stated within the press launch.
