Thousands of Amazon workers joined a strike on Thursday, marking the largest labor action against the company in American history. Workers at seven Amazon facilities in various states are participating in the strike, which is led by the Teamsters union. The union claims that Amazon has repeatedly refused to bargain in good faith and that workers are demanding higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions.
Thousands of Amazon workers organized under the Teamsters union went on strike at 6 a.m. Thursday after the company's repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain. Amazon Teamsters at seven facilities in Skokie, Illinois; New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco and Southern California are participating in the largest strike against the trillion-dollar company in American history, the union said in a news release. Workers at other facilities are prepared to join them.
Though Teamsters says it represents about 10,000 people across ten Amazon facilities in the U.S., the company doesn't recognize workers' affiliation with the union. Amazon says the Teamsters union is intentionally misleading the public because they don't represent Amazon employees and drivers, company spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement to Fox Business. 'For more than a year now, the Teamsters have continued to intentionally mislead the public – claiming that they represent ‘thousands of Amazon employees and drivers’. They don’t, and this is another attempt to push a false narrative,' Nantel said. 'The truth is that the Teamsters have actively threatened, intimidated, and attempted to coerce Amazon employees and third-party drivers to join them, which is illegal and is the subject of multiple pending unfair labor practice charges against the union.' Nantel also said the company 'does not expect any impact on our operations.' The strike comes after Teamsters says Amazon ignored the union's Dec. 15 deadline to negotiate new contracts for higher wages, better benefits and safer work conditions. 'If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a clear deadline to come to the table and do right by our members. They ignored it,' Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in the release
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