Amazon staff go on strike amid vacation season
Amazon staff affiliated with the Teamsters union continued a strike Friday at seven of the corporate’s supply hubs simply days earlier than Christmas. Madison Alworth with FOX Enterprise has the newest.
The Teamsters union issued a warning Thursday that vacation packages could possibly be delayed as hundreds of Amazon staff joined picket traces to battle for a good union contract that ensures wages, well being care and security.
Nonetheless, Amazon informed FOX Enterprise that it would not count on any impression on operations.
Amazon Teamsters at seven services in Skokie, Illinois; New York Metropolis; Atlanta; San Francisco; and Southern California are taking part within the “largest strike” towards the trillion-dollar firm in American historical past, the union stated in a information launch. Employees at different services are ready to affix them.
“In case your bundle is delayed through the holidays, you possibly can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a transparent deadline to come back to the desk and do proper by our members. They ignored it,” Teamsters Basic President Sean M. O’Brien stated in a press release.
Although the Teamsters union says it represents about 10,000 folks throughout 10 Amazon services within the U.S., Amazon stated it would not acknowledge staff’ affiliation with the union.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel informed FOX Enterprise in a press release that that is an “try and push a false narrative.”
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“Teamsters have continued to deliberately mislead the general public — claiming that they characterize ‘hundreds of Amazon workers and drivers.’ They don’t,” Nantel stated, including that “the Teamsters have actively threatened, intimidated and tried to coerce Amazon workers and third-party drivers to affix them, which is prohibited and is the topic of a number of pending unfair labor observe costs towards the union.”
Workers on the Amazon Swansea fulfilment heart in Swansea, Wales, course of orders on Nov. 26, 2010. (Matt Cardy/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The strike started after the teamsters on the DCK6 Amazon facility in San Francisco voted to authorize a strike of their battle for union recognition and a good contract.
The Teamsters stated that they had set a Dec. 15 deadline for the corporate to barter a labor settlement.
The union additionally claimed that over 20 bargaining models, representing almost 9,000 workers, have efficiently organized and that the corporate “threatens, intimidates and coerces its staff by unleashing union busters to swarm services.”
Fox Information’ Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.
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