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NEW YORK -- The Teamsters national launched a onslaught against Amazon that began Thursday morning, and it includes aggregate facilities successful California, successful summation to facilities successful New York, Illinois and Georgia.
The national says thousands of Amazon workers walked disconnected the occupation astatine 6 a.m., close successful the mediate of the engaged vacation shipping season.
"If your bundle is delayed during the holidays, you tin blasted Amazon's insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a wide deadline to travel to the array and bash close by our members. They ignored it," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "These greedy executives had each accidental to amusement decency and respect for the radical who marque their obscene profits possible. Instead, they've pushed workers to the bounds and present they're paying the price. This onslaught is connected them."
The onslaught volition interaction respective facilities located successful California, including ones San Francisco, Victorville, City of Industry, and Palmdale, successful summation to facilities successful Queens, New York; Skokie, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia.
"I've seen the Teamsters triumph large battles," said Dia Ortiz, a idiosyncratic astatine DBK4 successful New York. "We're acceptable to bash what it takes to triumph this one."
The retail elephantine said that its operations volition not beryllium affected by immoderate of the union's actions. Although the Teamsters assertion to correspond 7,000 Amazon workers nationwide, that accounts for little than 1% of the company's US workforce.
The clash betwixt the national and the online retailing elephantine are conscionable the latest effort by the Teamsters to enactment unit connected the institution and its beardown anti-union argumentation amid the cardinal vacation buying period. It's besides a motion that organized labour is trying caller strategies to correspond workers astatine Amazon, America's 2nd largest backstage assemblage employer.
But Amazon shows nary denotation it is consenting to scope a woody with the Teamsters, oregon adjacent recognizes that the national speaks for immoderate of its workers, contempt the national declaring that employees astatine galore Amazon facilities person signed cards asking to join.
"For much than a twelvemonth now, the Teamsters person continued to intentionally mislead the nationalist - claiming that they correspond 'thousands of Amazon employees and drivers'. They don't, and this is different effort to propulsion a mendacious narrative. The information is that the Teamsters person actively threatened, intimidated, and attempted to coerce Amazon employees and third-party drivers to articulation them, which is amerciable and is the taxable of aggregate pending unfair labour signifier charges against the union," said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel successful a statement.
CNN Wire contributed to this report.
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