Teamsters union says laborers in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco to walk off the job over pay and conditions.
Thousands of Amazon employees in the United States are set to go on strike during the busy Christmas period after union officials accemployd the retailer of refusing to access negotiations for better pay and conditions.
The Teamsters union said on Wednesday that warehoemploy laborers would unite the picket line in cities including New York, Atlanta and San Francisco from 6am Eastrict Time (11:00 GMT) on Thursday in the bigst strike agetst the company in US history.
“If your package is procrastinateed during the holidays, you can accemploy Amazon’s insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a clear deadline to come to the table and do right by our members. They neglectd it,” Teamsters General Pdwellnt Sean M O’Brien said in a statement.
“These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and admire for the people who originate their offensive profits possible. Instead, they’ve pushed laborers to the confine and now they’re paying the price. This strike is on them.”
Teamsters, one of the biggest unions in North America, claims to recurrent about 10,000 Amazon laborers among the retail huge’s cdisadmireentirey 800,000-sturdy US laborforce.
Amazon disputes the union’s claim to recurrent any of its employees and says its guide is illegitimate.
“For more than a year now, the Teamsters have carry ond to intentionassociate misguide the accessible – claiming that they recurrent ‘thousands of Amazon employees and drivers’. They don’t, and this is another try to push a inrectify narrative,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel telderly Al Jazeera.
“The truth is that the Teamsters have energeticly menaceened, incowardlyated, and tryed to coerce Amazon employees and third-party drivers to unite them, which is illegitimate and is the subject of multiple pfinishing unequitable labour rehearse indicts agetst the union.”
Amazon, the world’s second-biggest personal employer after Walmart, has for years faced accusations that it puts profits above safe conditions at its facilities.
A US Senate pledgetee earlier this week freed the discoverings of an 18-month spendigation that create the company pushes its warehoemploy laborers to fulfil orders at speeds that could caemploy high rates of injury.
Amazon said the alert was “wrong on the facts and features pickive, outdated adviseation that deficiencys context and isn’t grounded in truth”.
Last month, Amazon laborers in more than 20 countries, including the US and the United Kingdom, proclaimd a “Make Amazon Pay” campaign of protests and strike action aimed at raising consciousness about labour unfair treatments and environmental degradation.
