{"id":138337,"date":"2024-12-18T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138337"},"modified":"2024-12-18T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:21:51","slug":"amazon-workers-across-us-gear-up-to-strike-this-week-days-before-christmas-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138337","title":{"rendered":"Amazon workers across US gear up to strike this week, days before Christmas | Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/amazon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Amazon<\/a> workers are gearing up to strike from Thursday, days before Christmas, over the tech giant\u2019s refusal to begin negotiations over a contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Union locals are preparing members for pickets and actions outside Amazon facilities around the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Amazon was given a deadline of 15 December to agree to open talks with workers at the company\u2019s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, which became the first Amazon warehouse in the US to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/01\/amazon-union-groups-see-hope-workers-vote-alabama-new-york\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">win a union election<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">\u201cOur sisters and brothers at Amazon need our help and support \u2013 now is the time to show them what being part of the Teamster family is all about,\u201d wrote Teamsters local 299 in Detroit in a Facebook post, which announced strike shifts at an Amazon facility in metro Detroit on 19 and 20 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">The Teamsters did not immediately respond for comment. The post by Teamsters local 299 was later deleted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JwJpdx\/status\/1868830682333823316\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">flyer<\/a> from Teamsters local 206 in Portland, Oregon, also announced a picket at an Amazon warehouse on Thursday and Friday. \u201cAmazon has refused to recognize or bargain with the Teamsters at its facilities,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Amazon workers in Staten Island; at <a href=\"https:\/\/teamster.org\/2024\/12\/amazon-teamsters-vote-to-authorize-strike-at-two-major-nyc-warehouses\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">DBK4 <\/a>in Queens, New York; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Teamsters\/status\/1869112844794445861\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">four facilities<\/a> in southern California; and <a href=\"https:\/\/teamster.org\/2024\/12\/amazon-teamsters-in-skokie-authorize-strike\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">drivers <\/a>at DIL7 in Skokie, Illinois, voted to authorize strikes over the past week. Workers at two Amazon facilities outside Atlanta have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrdw.com\/2024\/12\/17\/ga-amazon-strike-could-hinder-holiday-deliveries-region\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">threatened<\/a> to strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/teamster.org\/2024\/12\/amazon-teamsters-authorize-strikes-at-four-california-facilities\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">statement <\/a>announcing the four California facility strike authorization votes, the Teamsters general president Sean O\u2019Brien said: \u201cThe corporate elitists who run Amazon are leaving workers with no choice. Greedy executives are pushing thousands of hardworking Americans to the brink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">\u201cAmazon rakes in more money than anybody, they subject workers to injury and abuse at every turn, and they illegally claim not to be the rightful employer of nearly half their workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">\u201cThis rigged system cannot continue. Amazon must be held accountable to workers and consumers alike. If workers are forced onto the picket line, Amazon will be striking itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/dec\/13\/amazon-new-york-strike\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">criticized<\/a> the Teamsters as the strike authorization votes were announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Spokesperson Eileen Hands said in a statement: \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/17\/amazon-worker-strike\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Amazon workers are gearing up to strike from Thursday, days before Christmas, over the tech giant\u2019s refusal to begin negotiations over a contract. 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