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Around 10,000 Amazon workers are striking just before Christmas
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Nearly 10,000 Amazon workers across the U.S. have gone on strike mere days before Christmas. Organised by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union is accusing Amazon of failing to negotiate a fair contract with them. In response, Amazon claims that the workers striking aren't actually its employees.
The Amazon strike began on Thursday at 6 a.m EST, with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announcing picket lines in New York City, Atlanta, Southern California, San Francisco, and Illinois. This action follows Teamsters issuing a deadline to Amazon earlier this month, demanding it come to the negotiating table by Dec. 15.
SEE ALSO:Amazon workers plan global protests and strikes on Black Friday
Workers across several Amazon facilities voted to authorise strikes over the past week, with Amazon ultimately failing to recognise their union and meet Teamsters' deadline for negotiations. The union's concerns include "low wages, disrespect, and illegal union busting," as well as workplace safety issues.
"If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "We gave Amazon a clear deadline to come to the table and do right by our members. They ignored it."
Unsurprisingly, Amazon has refuted Teamster's characterisation of the situation, calling it a "PR play" and accusing them of acting illegally. Specifically, Amazon alledges that Teamsters has "actively threatened, intimidated, and attempted to coerce" employees and contractors to join them.
"There are a lot of nuances here but I want to be clear, the Teamsters don’t represent any Amazon employees despite their claims to the contrary," said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel.
At least some of the striking workers are reportedly employees of a third-party contractor rather than direct hires of Amazon itself. Even so, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) previously determined that Amazon is a joint employer with its subcontractors, and has enough control over workers' conditions to be responsible for them under law.
Of course, Amazon disagrees. Yet rather than argue these facts, Amazon has challenged this decision by attacking the NLRB itself, claiming that the 90-year-old government agency is unconstitutional. The company previously presented the same argument in February, joining SpaceX and Trader Joe's in attempting to undermine the NLRB's legitimacy.
Amazon also attempted to overturn the first ever union of Amazon warehouse workers last year, though was ultimately unsuccessful.
Pay and working conditions at Amazon have been constant concerns for many years. Last month, employees across the globe went on strike during Black Friday for the fifth annual Make Amazon Pay campaign. Protestors have consistently demanded the e-commerce giant improve its treatment of workers, respect their right to organise, operate sustainably, and give back to society. The Make Amazon Pay campaign is not organised by Teamsters, and involved workers in over 20 countries this year.
The net worth of Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos currently sits at $237 billion, putting him second only to Elon Musk on Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires list. This is a $68 billion increase since Bezo's net worth during last year's Make Amazon Pay protests — a bump larger than Myanmar's GDP, and the approximate size of Alaska's.
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Do not overwork yourselves for these money hungry companies
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ReplyDeleteLove to see it.
ReplyDeleteThey gotta be dumb. Amazon was trying to reduce the workforce in a shady way. Now they got volunteers for layoffs. Stop listening to union leaders. Take a look at the news, all the strikes wins are temporary follow by layoffs.
ReplyDeleteAmazon is still to this day the worse company I have ever worked for. It feels so inhumane how they treat their workers. You aren’t even allowed to have a conversation without them tracking you to send you harassment messages on your scanner. I never dealt with that myself since I normally stay busy but I’m just different. A lot of people want to socialize and Amazon wants to squeeze every penny they can out their labor. They use to be the richest company in the world and they got that way by simply only paying their employees $12 bucks an hour while Walmart was paying like $17 I think at the time(2017). Walmart is a much better company than Amazon to work for. How does Walmart pay more yet has less money as a company. People bitching about your packages I suggest using Walmart, stockx and temu. Temu is Chinese oooooo fancy 🫠😂
ReplyDeleteGood for them.
ReplyDeleteIn Canada Amazon wanted me to work for them for CAD $15 an hour (USD $10.47) minimum wage is CAD $15 an hour (USD $10.47) and you have to travel over 1 hour out of Calgary a day and the gas alone would cost $7+ a day (USD $4.89) not including wear and tear, insurance and other expenses. And no buses go there.
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ReplyDeleteLove to see it. Amazon can afford $25 an hr to the people making them trillions a year.
ReplyDeleteThe Teamsters represent everyone. Tell Bozos to pay up or you won't be Prime members anymore.
ReplyDeleteShould have been handling business instead of having dinner with DJT...
ReplyDeleteShould have been taking care of business instead of having dinner with DJT? See
Deletehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jeff-bezos-elon-musk-meeting-b2667223.html?
Interesting, this is what happens when people like Ethel get pissed off.
ReplyDeleteIt’s not going to matter a decade from now anyway, the automated warehouse is coming
Fuck them packages, DISRESPECTFULLY. Y’all want chall shit, then use another entity, because what y’all don’t know, is we will be straight either way.😂
ReplyDeleteI stand with the Union employees. Amazon being the fourth largest company in America can do better.
ReplyDeleteThe unions have become far more crooked than the corporations they are fighting. They breed laziness and subpar workers.
ReplyDeletesmart people are tired of being beast of burden" hardly ever a pay raise comes out of billionaire's pocket, they always pass it on to the customer, stop defending greed
Deletethey aren't smart. first off. and humans ARE beast of burden. literally.
DeleteLet them go.. hire new workers. I have stuff to be delivered it will be late that's ok. Let them go. Lots of people out of work that will gladly take the job. They did this right before Christmas on purpose
ReplyDeletesmart people are tired of being beast of burden" hardly ever a pay raise comes out of billionaire's pocket, they always pass it on to the customer, stop defending greed
DeletePeople are just trying to play the actual grinch this year, holding childrens Christmas presents hostage
ReplyDeletethey are just trying to live with dignity, and get paid what they deserve,stop defending billionaires
Deletedid they not realize they were being treated unfairly before Christmas? Because I'm guessing this isn't new. Waiting to do a protest til Christmas, hurting children, is just wrong. I'm sure it could have been done a month ago, or next month. I respect wanting more money and livable working conditions, but waiting and then hurting people at Christmas before saying something, they were trying to hurt people and I don't respect that.
DeleteYes!
ReplyDeleteUnions have no place today. It's strictly for the Union bosses to make money.
ReplyDeleteKeep going, don’t give up!
ReplyDeleteUnions are a joke! OSHA and FLMA has created laws for work conditions. The Teamsters just want their own power and money. They don't care about the workers 😂🤣
ReplyDeletefake account,Neinstein
Deletemy Union made sure I've been well taken care of after breaking my spine at work.
DeleteThose aren't the Rings of Saturn bruh, it's your prostrate. Pull your head, the world smells better out here.
Amazon gas 37% market share but has over half of the accidents/injuries in a workplace let alone the ones that don’t get reported in a place where they risk their jobs reporting. Thank a union for working only 40 having weekends, overtime pay and more. Teamsters are the workers themselves. Of course they want their money
DeleteWe've got a really great deal for you! We're making you private contractors instead of employees. That way we won't be withholding any taxes from your pay check. Isn't that great?
ReplyDeleteThat’s why Amazon investing in robots I guess these people don’t realize eventually Amazon won’t need them
ReplyDeleteand smart people will realize that they don’t need Amazon or Bezos….
DeleteFight with all you have!
ReplyDeleteI will not buy anything from amazon as long as the strike goes on.
ReplyDeleteYou don’t like your job, get a better one 🤔
ReplyDeleteGOOD !
ReplyDeleteFire them all..... Merry Christmas to them.
ReplyDeleteRobots have no buying power in the economy so we need a universal income for the people that have been replaced.sorry robots are not the answer Go unions
ReplyDeleteStrike, baby, strike!
ReplyDeleteHell yeah
ReplyDeleteIt ended already
ReplyDeleteTaking advantage of the paying customer to get their way . Union cowards
ReplyDeleteso you’re going to blame working people that are underpaid overworked and working in unsafe conditions fighting for conditions? Blame Amazon for not meeting them at the negotiations table fairly
DeleteGood!
ReplyDeleteYESSSS
ReplyDeleteThis was called “ manufactured protest. Sounds like jan6th and all the Kirby riots in 2020-2021. Imagine that. Can we find out if those “ protesters” actually work at Amazon!
ReplyDeleteDoes media do that deep dive homework before the story?
yeah they're real bruh. My brother is one of them there on strike.
DeleteDo you do your research before making a fool of yourself online?
Or you just a bot-tard trolling?
Enter ..Robots to fill in the void !.
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Delete..Don't get vulgar..Ask yourself why your own employer has got you working more and bursting your unions and paying you less CONFIDENTLY for years...
DeleteJust do what the other employees of the CEO who bought a luxury car while cutting their benefits...
Join forces and start a competition..
These days ..big businesses actually want you to protest ..so they can get you to do that for long ...negotiate a 5% raise and convince you..that's the best they can offer you!..
#Take a stand for yourself and read the hand writing on the wall..
"THEY DON'T CARE"
or the better way of organizing labor for better negotiating power? Also Bring in robots, if they want to form up the dollar that brings in more workers who should still fight for better conditions like programmers, software designers and maintenance for said robots other infrastructure builders for the automatic robot drivers. Competition could be healthy, but no matter what you’re at the mercy of the employers. Not everyone can be a boss, even fewer can be a fair boss.
DeletePay up Jeff
ReplyDeleteWell, did they?
ReplyDeleteThey didn't. It's such a tiny rounding error either way.
DeleteFulfillment employees will never have power because attrition is too high. Meanwhile, wages are high enough to replace those people, and the machine continues churning.
Sucks but true.
I thought they were unionized Amazon workers.
DeleteLooks like 10,000 workers in 10 warehouses, out of 1.5 million total US employees. The vast majority of their warehouses aren't unionized.
Deletewith just 10k striking, amazon is just able to fill the positions from their next batch of applicants. a whole lot of nothing.
DeleteThat’s what people don’t understand, attrition is through the roof, these are not careers just a means to an end to make a little money. People come and go everyday at each facility.
DeleteAll the videos I have seen are of non-amazon workers; they are delivery drivers who work for amazon-contracted companies. You can tell by the blue vests.
DeleteTechnically they're non-amazon workers in the same way Uber drivers were not employees before Minnesota passed a law saying they were because Uber controls just about everything the driver does.
DeleteTechnically, the NLRB considers them joint employees of Amazon and the DSP. So, not at all like Uber.
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DeleteUber drivers work for and are directly paid by Uber. DSP drivers are one extra layer removed from Amazon. Amazon contracts delivery companies and pays them for their services. The delivery companies hire the drivers, they interview them, and pay them, provide them with uniforms and equipment, and daily support.
It's pretty different from Uber driver to DSP driver.
Strike Thursday, have to work twice as hard Friday
ReplyDeleteHow can we help them?
ReplyDeleteYou never see a single office employee at these union strikes. All those corporate employees complaining about going back to the office who never support these warehouse workers....
ReplyDeleteDo the warehouse workers support the office workers who don’t want RTO? Seems like apples and oranges
DeleteIs it time to cancel Prime? Can I expect to buy stuff delivered to my relatively rural location from other suppliers?
ReplyDeleteYes
DeleteWell fuck the unions! They are grinching Christmas. Hopefully when trump is president again he’ll do something to end unions!
ReplyDeleteIm generally conservative leaning, but being anti union is such a strange thing to me. Why would you be against representation in the workplace?
DeleteBecause they decimate a meritocracy
DeleteI think unions had a positive effect 100 years ago. Now they’re like parasites, sucking money out of their members to enrich the officers and “officials” meanwhile they constantly spout crap about “they’re not paying us fairly” and periodically they’ll agitate for the members to get more. Just look at the union officers salaries, travel & entertainment expenses, political contributions, charity contributions, and real estate investments and expenses. It’s quite a bucket of $ ~ all paid by those members! Now a days anyone can find and change jobs and get paid more or better on their own efforts. The free markets actually work… not every job is worth a living wage. And ~ not every worker is worth the same wage.
DeleteAll i know is i work in the construction industry, and there's a reason most of us who have family work union vs non-union.
DeleteBad info. Weird to see anyone simping for Billionaires like Bezos. Amazon workers make a pittance. Why do you not want them to make more? Why? Don't you want to MAGA?
DeleteWell, one good reason is I, tha same as bozos, also own a few shares of Amazon. More profit = higher share price and more dividends.
DeleteThat’s a very good reason……
This guy just cries about shit on reddit all day. Going by his post history he's too lazy to go around his HOA asking questions about owners because of some upcoming changes.
Deletelol ~ maybe learn to read or comprehend what you misread. Simply looking for an easier more logical way to contact HOA members. But you’d probably not understand that ~ not without your union officers reading it and explaining it to you huh? Oh, I’m sorry…. The union says that’s not required by your contract ~ that’s the responsibility of the union proofreader…
DeleteGoing door to door is the easiest and logical way to do it. But you'd probably not understand that since you weren't taught critical thinking skills and just plain lazy.
DeleteYou’re demonstrating your own educational level with that response…. The easiest and most logical way is to email the members!
DeleteYou’re demonstrating your own educational level with that response…. The easiest and most logical way is to talk to the members in person!
DeleteLMAO - ok Brandon
DeleteAmen
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DeleteNaw…..it was the gasoline sniffing or the LSD probably.
DeleteUnions won’t help. They’re all pro trump.
ReplyDeleteI’m pro Amazon on this one. Get me my packages quickly and cheaply. It’s their fault they didn’t pay attention in math class
ReplyDeleteLol if they can't do something as simple as driving. I doubt they'd be successful at protesting
ReplyDeleteLuigi 2025
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ReplyDeleteI’ll give you $10 for it. That’ll get you a pound of bacon no problem.
DeleteNo way. I will just ask a random stranger in a store. Can't get ripped off that way.
DeleteDon’t be bitches…just wait until after the new year so you don’t hurt us the consumers as much during Christmas rush. It’s not our fault.
ReplyDeleteQuit buying things on Amazon. They treat employees like slaves and pieces of shit. And half the items on Amazon are directly shipped from China, or used, or refurbished. Their product quality is ass. I would buy anywhere else instead.
DeleteYou do realize that a lot of people buy on Amazon for Christmas right. So there will be people who don’t get their presents on Christmas because of these assholes. I agree they should have waited until after Christmas when people are expecting stuff to get to them. Or better yet if they didn’t like the job to begin with they shouldn’t have taken it, it’s not a hard thing to do. Many people have options when choosing a job, they just chose to work for a bad company I guess
DeleteYou do realises Amazon are able to exploit these people because of assholes that do their Christmas shopping at the last minute on Amazon. If they didn't want to risk not getting it in time they should have just ordered earlier. Or better yet order from somewhere that doesn't treat their staff like cattle.
DeleteYea just tell people to order things early, that easy for people who don’t have jobs and have free time. People work long hours and they don’t want to come home from work and go back out to get things so that’s why they wait a little
DeleteMany people have options when choosing a job, they just chose to work for a bad company I guess. Or better yet if they didn’t like the job to begin with they shouldn’t have taken it, it’s not a hard thing to do.
DeleteExactly what I said haha
Deletethis is one of the dumbest fucking comments i have ever read
DeleteHaha yea ok whatever you say. But you do realize it’s true you really think people who have 9-5 jobs 5 days a week really want to go out shopping when they are tired from work? Like come on now
DeleteThe point I’m making is to quit monetarily supporting evil corporations known for abusing their employees. For example, if I want to buy electronics for Christmas, I can purchase them at Best Buy. If I want gift cards or toys, I can purchase them at target. If I want books, Barnes and noble. We need to as a population put money into companies that aren’t actively abusing people, and take money away from those companies that are.
DeleteThese people wouldn’t be striking if they were treated humanely and respected. Amazon has repeatedly failed to realize the value of treating employees well and has profited from abusing them.
Cool, don’t care. I will go to those places if they are close to me. Some places where I can ship for certain things are a ways away from me so it doesn’t always work. So that’s why I order from Amazon because it is easier to do
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Deletenot name calling to call a sociopath a sociopath.
DeleteWhen you resort to name calling, it shows you have no argument and nothing to add to the discussion.
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