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(NewsNation) — Nearly 10,000 Amazon workers who are portion of the Teamsters national are striking crossed the United States up of the Christmas holiday.
Teamsters are demanding much wealth for workers and assertion that Amazon officials person not done capable to hole workplace information issues. Amazon has denied the claims.
Picket lines are being seen successful cities similar New York, Chicago and Atlanta arsenic workers are walking disconnected the occupation arsenic the vacation unreserved to get packages delivered crossed the state heats up.
In suburban Chicago, astir 400 Teamster drivers enactment astatine a installation wherever immoderate employees are encouraging their colleagues to articulation the picket lines. The main request is amended pay. Drivers assertion they are surviving paycheck to paycheck.
Workers are besides upset with however rapidly they indispensable process packages astatine Amazon fulfillment centers, citing a survey that showed that workplace injuries astatine Amazon are treble that of the manufacture standard. This week, a study released by the bulk unit for the Senate Committee connected Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, recovered that Amazon accepted worker injuries as portion of the "cost of doing business."
Amazon responded by saying that the committee's chair, Vermont autarkic Sen. Bernie Sanders is "misleading the American public."
Teamsters’ officials besides reason Amazon absorption did not travel to the bargaining table. Amazon executives support that the Teamsters are not typical of each of the company’s drivers.
Amazon pays a operator work which successful turn, provides astir 7,000 independently contracted drivers for Amazon, which says the drivers are not Amazon employees. Those drivers, the institution says, correspond little than 1% of its workforce.
