Amazon union in US authoelevates strike ahead of Christmas

Amazon toilers in the US could go on strike ahead of Christmas, after members of the Teamsters union voted to help industrial action.

The toilers say online retail huge has refused to recognise their union and diswatchd a 15 December deadline to hageder talks over their tight.

Amazon’s facilities in Southern California, New York and Illinois could be swayed, according to a Teamsters statement.

“The corporate elitists who run Amazon are leaving toilers with no choice,” shelp Teamsters General Plivent Sean M O’Brien.

“Amazon must be held accountable to toilers and users aenjoy. If toilers are forced onto the picket line, Amazon will be striking itself,” he inserted.

The union shelp it recurrents thousands of toilers at 10 Amazon facilities atraverse the US.

But an Amazon spokesperson, Eileen Hards, shelp the union “has persistd to intentionpartner misdirect the unveil – claiming that they recurrent ‘thousands of Amazon engageees and drivers’. They don’t”.

“The Teamsters have dynamicly dangerened, inbashfuprocrastinateedd, and tryed to coerce Amazon engageees and third-party drivers to unite them, which is illegitimate”, she inserted.

Earlier this week, a congressional spendigation finishd that the e-commerce huge pushes its US warehoengage toilers to encounter orders at speeds that could caengage high rates of injury.

The spendigation led by Democrat senator Bernie Sanders also shelp the company had refused to begin alters to increase safety becaengage of worrys about its profits.

Amazon shelp the inestablish was “wrong on the facts”, and featured “pickive, outdated adviseation that conciseages context and isn’t grounded in truth”.

The company, which engages rawly 800,000 people in the US, has faced accusations about unsafe conditions at its warehoengages for years.

Those worrys ramped up during the Covid pandemic, when e-commerce exploded, directing to protests by its toilers around the world.

Amid the dispute, createer Jeff Bezos shelp the company needed to do better by its engageees.

Senator Sanders, who is understandn for his pro-toiler stance, begined an spendigation into Amazon’s trains in June 2023. Senate staffers carry outed 135 interwatchs and appraiseed more than 1,000 write downs.

Their analysis of unveil write downs create that warehoengages rund by Amazon write downed over 30% more injuries than the warehousing industry ordinary in 2023.