SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Employees at an Amazon warehouse in San Francisco are on strike Thursday, becoming a member of six different supply stations of the e-commerce firm throughout the nation. The Teamsters, who’re in search of a labor settlement throughout a key buying interval, stated it’s the largest strike in opposition to the corporate in U.S. historical past.
The Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters stated they signify almost 10,000 staff at 10 Amazon services. On Wednesday, San Francisco union members licensed the strike after they stated Amazon ignored a Sunday deadline to barter a labor settlement.
“We are fighting for a union contract that guarantees the wages, health care, and safety that we need,” stated Janeé Roberts, a employee on the San Francisco warehouse, in an announcement of the strike authorization.
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The strikes are taking place at six Amazon services in Southern California, New York Metropolis; Atlanta, Georgia, and Skokie, Illinois, along with the San Francisco warehouse, based on the union. Amazon staff on the different services are “prepared to join,” the union stated.
In the meantime, Amazon stated the supply drivers, which the Teamsters have organized for greater than a 12 months, are usually not its workers. Beneath its enterprise mannequin, the drivers work for a third-party enterprise referred to as Supply Service Companions.
In an announcement to KRON4, Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel stated, “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 continued, “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.”
Teamsters Common President Sean M. O’Brien claimed that Amazon refuses to acknowledge the union. “If Amazon wants a fight, the 1.3 million-member Teamsters Union is ready to deliver,” O’Brien stated in an announcement.
