After legal delays and infighting, the Amazon Labor Union — the independent union that won a historic union victory against the tech giant — will affiliate with the Teamsters.
Christian Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, and Sean O’Brien, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, arrive to testify during a Senate Budget Committee hearing in Washington in May 2022. which won a historic victory at an Amazon warehouse in New York in 2022 — is moving to formally affiliate with the Teamsters, an alliance that could help revive the struggling organization.
Since its big win, the leadership of ALU, which inspired dozens of follow-on campaigns across the country, has experienced a schism. Some union leaders alleged that the president and face of the campaign, Chris Smalls, wasted union resources on a press tour while ignoring important organizing work, resulting in a split between the two groups and an ongoing lawsuit.coronavirus
Smalls told The Post that the move to affiliate with the Teamsters “made sense as opposed to working on separate campaigns” to organize Amazon.“The Teamsters have the most expertise when it comes to logistics in this country as far as delivery drivers,” Smalls said. “They have money, volunteers and locals all over the country.”
The Teamsters, which last year threatened UPS with a nationwide shutdown, could bring fresh momentum and organizing heft to the effort to unionize Amazon. The narrowly averted strike won UPS’s 340,000 union members the strongest contract in decades, forcing the shipping giant to abolish a lower-paid tier of workers and securing 48 percent average raises for part-time workers over five years.
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