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In some cases, that would hold companies liable for workers they don’t actually employ and workplaces they don’t control.Īssuming that happens, the Teamsters may be banking on an eventual ruling in their favor, declaring that drivers for a contract company like BTS are magically Amazon employees even though they are not. Observers of labor policy expect that the final rule will make it easier for the Board to find that two or more businesses are acting as joint employers.
This may all be an attempt to take advantage of the NLRB’s pending joint employer rule. Likewise, the essence of a strike is that you deprive an employer of your labor. If you don’t actually work at the company in question, your absence is unlikely to be noticed. OSHA Prepares to Join Administration-Wide Effort to Aid Unionsīut there’s nothing for Amazon to honor. The contract covers individuals who don’t work for Amazon and are employed by a company with whom Amazon does no business. While the Teamsters’ strike ostensibly is about working conditions at the facility, the reality is that the union is angry that “Amazon has refused to recognize and honor the union contract” that BTS agreed to. Notwithstanding that important tidbit, the Teamsters union has taken its misguided campaign another step by calling a strike at Amazon’s facility in Palmdale, CA, which the union called “ historic.” The company has been frequently criticized for its wages and working conditions. The only problem with those headlines, however, was the fact that the drivers in question work for BTS, not Amazon, and Amazon ended its contract with BTS based on the latter’s performance, as this blog also reported. Amazon workers in Germany are engaging in a four-day strike following a call from trade union Verdi.
This news led to glaring headlines incorrectly proclaiming that the union had succeeded in organizing Amazon drivers, perhaps because BTS had at one point a contract to make deliveries for Amazon through its Delivery Service Partner program. However, it signals that Amazon isn't keen to tolerate labor disruptions even with a union present.As this blog observed back in April, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters organized 84 drivers and dispatchers at a Southern California company called Battle Tested Strategies (BTS), which had voluntarily recognized the union and subsequently arrived at a collective bargaining agreement with it.
The affected staffers won't necessarily lose their jobs. Staff at multiple American warehouses have pushed for unionization (albeit with limited success), while Amazon has been accused of using anti-union tactics. There's also broader tension across the company. In May, Amazon fired several senior managers in a move that employees claimed was retaliation for labor organization efforts. The suspensions won't help ease the conflict between Amazon and workers at JFK8, the company's only unionized warehouse. Employees at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse in central. Day shift team members were sent home with pay. Hundreds of Amazon workers will go on strike, Britain’s GMB union said Friday, marking a first for the company’s employees in the U.K. The "vast majority" of workers complied, Amazon said. In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson said there was a "small fire" in a cardboard compactor, and that it asked night shift workers (including those in the protest) to report to their usual shifts after firefighters said the warehouse was safe. One of the workers, Connor Spence, said the suspension would continue while Amazon investigated the work stoppage. The company and workers have confirmed to CNN that about 50 workers were suspended with pay at JFK8 after they occupied the human resources office and refused to work in allegedly unsafe conditions following a ship dock fire. Amazon has responded swiftly to the impromptu strike at its unionized Staten Island warehouse.
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