Amazon workers begin strike during holiday season
Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union continued their strike at seven of the company’s shipping hubs on Friday, days before Christmas. FOX Business’ Madison Alworth has the latest updates.
teamsters union Amazon warned Thursday that holiday packages could be delayed as thousands of Amazon workers take to picket lines demanding fair union contracts that guarantee wages, health care and safety.
But Amazon told FOX Business that’s not the case. Business operations are expected to be affected.
Amazon Teamsters at seven facilities in Skokie, Illinois; New York City; Atlanta; San Francisco; The union said in a news release that California and Southern California are participating in the “largest strike” against a multitrillion-dollar corporation in U.S. history. Employees at other facilities are also ready to join them.
“If your package gets delayed during the holidays, you can blame it on Amazon’s insatiable greed,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement. We gave them a clear deadline to do so, and they ignored it.” In a statement.
The Teamsters union says it represents about 10,000 workers at 10 Amazon facilities in the United States, but Amazon says it does not allow its workers to belong to the union.
Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel told FOX Business in a statement that this was an “attempt to push a false narrative.”
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“The Teamsters have deliberately continued to mislead the public by claiming that they represent ‘thousands of Amazon employees and drivers,’ which they do not,” Nantel said. “The Teamsters are actively attempting to intimidate, intimidate, and coerce Amazon employees and third-party drivers into participating, which is illegal and the subject of multiple pending lawsuits.” “There is,” he added. unfair labor practice crime Oppose trade unions. ”
Staff at the Amazon Swansea fulfillment center in Swansea, Wales process an order on November 26, 2010. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images/Getty Images)
The strike began after Teamsters at the DCK6 Amazon facility in San Francisco voted to authorize the strike as a fight for union recognition and a fair contract.
The Teamsters said the company has set a Dec. 15 deadline to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement.
The union also said more than 20 bargaining units representing about 9,000 employees had successfully organized and that the company was “unleashing union busters swarming its facilities, intimidating, intimidating and coercing employees.” He also claimed that there is.
FOX News’ Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.
