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Amazon’s restriction of third-party sellers’ options of last mile-delivery firms was “destroying middle-class jobs.”Article content
While the union has so far spoken primarily to warehouse workers, Finnson says the drive will also focus on Amazon delivery and logistics workers, as well as employees at the many independent courier companies on which Amazon often relies to deliver packages to customers. “The workers in that industry also are expressing a community of interest with the Teamsters members that perform similar work,” he said.” to Teamsters workers.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, the country’s largest private-sector union, has already made attempts to unionize Amazon contract workers in the country. In 2017 and 2018, UFCW helpedthird-party delivery drivers in the Toronto area looking to unionize in a bid to negotiate with Amazon on their working conditions. The union is now fighting Amazon at the Ontario Labour Relations Board, arguing the firm blocked drivers’ attempts to form collective-bargaining units.
subcontractors who supported unionizing by lowering delivery volumes, forcing firings and driving one delivery firm into bankruptcy.Article contentthe union is “fully supportive of the efforts of Amazon workers to improve their lives by joining the [Teamsters] union.” The Teamsters admit it will be a long and difficult campaign. The most recent attempt to unionize Amazon workers, by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union at the company’s
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