Teamsters Canada will revive its campaign to unionize workers at an Amazon packaging facility in Nisku, Alta.
Teamsters Canada – a trade union representing approximately 120,000 workers mostly in warehousing and delivery services – is reviving its campaign to unionize workers at an Amazon packaging facility in Nisku, Alta., just south of Edmonton.unionizing effort at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y. There, a grassroots movement led by a fired employee successfully rallied workers to vote in favour of becoming the first unionized workplace in Amazon’s history.
This is the Teamsters second attempt at forming a union at the Nisku warehouse, which employs between 700 and 1,000 workers. Its first attempt was fraught with complications. The union accused Amazon of inflating the number of workers at the warehouse such that the Alberta Labour Relations Board ultimately declared Teamsters had not met the threshold of necessary support.
Amazon warehouses have a high turnover rate: A New York Times investigation published last June showed that the company lost about 3 per cent of its hourly workers each week on average – indicating an annual turnover rate of approximately 150 per cent. across North America. For example, a June, 2021, study from the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of American labour unions, found that workers at Amazon warehouses in the U.S. had an injury rate that was almost 80 per cent higher than the rest of the industry.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Teamsters’ unionization attempts.
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