Amazon workers in Southern California have voted to authorize a strike during the holiday delivery season.
The big picture: The Teamsters union, representing Amazon workers in Palmdale, San Bernardino, Victorville, and the City of Industry, voted in favor of the strike due to Amazon’s refusal to recognize their union and negotiate contracts.
- Amazon was given until December 15 to come to the bargaining table, but the company did not cooperate, according to the union.
What they’re saying: Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien criticized Amazon’s executives for pushing hardworking Americans to the brink and subjecting workers to injury and abuse.
- “The corporate elitists who run Amazon are leaving workers with no choice,” O’Brien said in a statement. “Greedy executives are pushing thousands of hardworking Americans to the brink. Amazon 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. This rigged system cannot continue.”
