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Why are Amazon workers on strike – and what does it mean for Christmas deliveries?
- Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers in the US are on strike after the company refused to start contract negotiations with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
- Although the first Amazon warehouse union was formed over two years ago in New York, the company has refused to recognize and negotiate a contract with the union.
- The Amazon Labor Union has gained approximately 10,000 workers across ten facilities in the US over the last two years with seven of the ten unionized facilities on strike.
- It's unclear how the strike will affect deliveries. Amazon has hundreds of thousands of employees working at delivery hubs and facilities that aren't unionized.
- The strike may go past Christmas and into the new year as the Teamsters have not specified how long it will last.
- The union wants Amazon to negotiate a contract with its members, who are demanding better wages, job security, and benefits.
- Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have argued that the National Labor Relations Board's structure is unconstitutional because board members cannot be removed by the president.
- Amazon claims that many of the unionized members are not its employees and that the union harasses and intimidates employees.
- The strike is the largest one against Amazon in the company's history.
- The Teamsters say local unions will also put up picket lines at hundreds of other non-unionized Amazon fulfillment centers across the country.
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