The Teamsters have a new mission: Unionize Amazon workers [View all]
Source: AP
By JOSEPH PISANI
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the nation’s largest union is aiming to unionize Amazon workers.
Representatives from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union that represents 1.4 million workers, voted on Thursday to make organizing Amazon workers a priority. That means it will create a division focused on Amazon and set aside money for the effort.
The Teamsters said that Amazon, the nation’s second-largest private employer, is exploiting its employees by paying them low wages, pushing them to work at fast speeds and giving them no job security. It also said the company, which has been rapidly growing its delivery business, threatens the working standards it has created for workers at other freight and delivery companies, such as UPS.
“Amazon workers are calling for safer and better working conditions and with today’s resolution we are activating the full force of our union to support them,” said Randy Korgan, the national director for Amazon at the Teamsters.
FILE - This April 21, 2020 file photo shows Amazon tractor trailers line up outside the Amazon Fulfillment Center in the Staten Island borough of New York. One of the nation’s largest union is aiming to unionize Amazon workers. Representatives from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union that represents 1.4 million workers, voted on Thursday, June 24, 2021, to make organizing Amazon workers a priority. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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