Well, if you didn’t order what you wanted from Amazon before this week, looks like you probably won’t get it — especially not in time for Christmas — because the Teamsters has just whipped up a strike against the online retailer.
The Teamsters has pulled 7,000 Amazon workers off the job alleging that Amazon ignored their December 15 deadline.
Per Just the News:
“Amazon is pushing its workers closer to the picket line by failing to show them the respect they have earned,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement.
The Teamsters have said the union represents about 7,000 Amazon workers across the country, which represents less than 1% of the company’s workforce in the U.S. According to CNN, the first location where workers began to strike was one in Queens, New York followed by Skokie, Illinois.
A representative for Amazon said the Teamsters has been using illegal tactics to pressure employees to join its efforts and she rejected claims the Teamsters represent thousands of the company’s workers. The company said their operations won’t be impacted by the Teamsters’ strike.
“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,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement.
“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,” she added.
Amazon tried to claim that the strike won’t impinge on its holiday operations. But that hardly seems likely.
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