A historic strike is set to disrupt Amazon's operations during the crucial holiday season as thousands of workers, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, walk out on December 19th.
Thousands of Amazon workers will strike on Thursday, December 19, amidst the final days of holiday shopping, in what is being called the largest strike against Amazon in history. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters —the union which represents around 1 percent of Amazon 's workforce—is launching the strike. Workers at seven facilities will walkout on Thursday. Amazon is the second-largest company on the Fortune 500 list, and is worth over $2 trillion.
Amazon ships hundreds of millions of packages over the holiday season. According to a report from Bloomberg in January of this year, in 2023, Amazon accounted for 29 percent of all global online orders in the two weeks leading up to Christmas. The strike will pose a challenge to Amazon's operations, and may cause delays to deliveries, with the strike action coming during the company's busiest season of the year, though it is unclear at this time exactly what the impact of the strike will be. In a press release, the Teamsters union said that the company 'fails to pay its workers enough to make ends meet.' Unionized workers are striking in order to seek contracts which guarantee better wages and working conditions. The Teamsters Union had given Amazon a deadline of Sunday, December 15 to begin negotiations. Workers then voted to authorize a strike when negotiations did not take place. Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel told Newsweek: '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
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