Organizers from Teamsters Local Union 362 rally outside an Amazon facility to get support and distribute information to Amazon workers, in Nisku, Alta, on Tuesday, September 14, 2021.
Teamsters Canada has brought back a union drive for workers in an Amazon fulfillment centre in south Edmonton, planning to build on the momentum
“What happened in New York is a real motivation for us, and we want to strike as quickly as we can now.” “The ramifications of the Amazon victory will clearly extend beyond the borders of the United States,” said Barry Eidlin, an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University. “Teamsters follow a more traditional model, where they come in and persuade workers to join them, which is always more challenging,” Foster said.Haggerty accused Amazon of exaggerating the number of workers at the facility to the point that the Alberta Labour Relations Board concluded the Teamsters lacked the requisite backing of 40 per cent of the workforce.
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