Hundreds of supply drivers who work for Amazon third-party contractors at the moment are on strike, The New York Occasions reviews. The employees are putting after “Amazon’s repeated refusal to observe the regulation and discount with the 1000’s of Amazon staff who organized with the Teamsters,” in response to a Teamsters press launch.
Staff are picketing at Amazon warehouses from Atlanta, New York Metropolis, San Francisco, Southern California, and Skokie, Unwell., with different Amazon Teamsters “ready to affix them,” the Teamsters say. “Teamsters native unions are additionally placing up main picket traces at tons of of Amazon Achievement Facilities nationwide.”
The Nationwide Labor Relations Board issued a criticism in opposition to Amazon earlier this yr, saying that Amazon and one in every of its third-party contractors are joint employers of supply drivers and that it has “a authorized responsibility to acknowledge and discount with the Teamsters Union,” per one other Teamsters press launch.
For greater than a yr now, the Teamsters have continued to deliberately mislead the general public – claiming that they symbolize ‘1000’s of Amazon workers and drivers’. They don’t, and that is one other try to push a false narrative. The reality is that the Teamsters have actively threatened, intimidated, and tried to coerce Amazon workers and third-party drivers to affix them, which is unlawful and is the topic of a number of pending unfair labor apply expenses in opposition to the union.
Replace, December nineteenth: Added that Amazon despatched us a press release.
