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In July 2022, a Presidential Emergency Board was convened under the Railway Labor Act by President Joe Biden. [11] His Executive order stated, "I have been notified by the National Mediation Board that in its judgment these disputes threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service."
Strike authorization votes are often approved, even if the union members never actually go on strike. That happened at UPS, the Teamsters’ largest employer, in 2023, where the union and parcel ...
An upstart union, the Amazon Labor Union won such a vote at Amazon’s Staten Island facility in April 2022. And that vote was certified by the NLRB. But despite repeated setbacks in court, Amazon ...
A person wears a badge on their clothing as Amazon workers and supporters take part in a strike organized by the Teamsters union at the Amazon facility in the Queens borough of New York City on ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The Teamsters union says it also represents Amazon warehouse workers, including thousands of employees at the major New York City fulfillment center who voted to be represented by the Amazon Labor Union. Amazon objected to the 2022 warehouse election results, alleging the Amazon Labor Union and the federal labor board had tainted the vote.
Over a five-day period between March 25 and 30, 2022, workers voted for unionizing the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island. [2] On April 1, 2022, the ballot count concluded with 2,654 in favor of unionizing and 2,131 voting against, officially resulting with the creation of the Amazon Labor Union as the first independent Amazon union in the United States. [2]
Teamsters members at Costco make up 8% of its 219,000 employees at 616 US stores, according to company filings. But a strike by that many workers would behave been significant for the largely non ...