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PHOTO: Amazon workers and members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters picket in front of the Amazon fulfilment center in the Queens borough of in New York, Dec. 20, 2024.
Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien told reporters they discussed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act and “how important it is to veto a national right to work,” and they…
In a news release, the union calls it the "largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history" and says it comes after Amazon has refused to bargain with workers organized with the Teamsters.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of the Team Drivers International Union and the Teamsters National Union, [2] the union now represents a diverse membership of blue- and white-collar workers in both the public and private sectors, totalling about 1.3 million members in 2015. [1]
The Teamsters said in a news release Thursday that nearly 10,000 Amazon workers have joined the union. That’s just a small fraction of the 1.5 million people employed by the $2 trillion tech and ...
[1] [3] O'Brien resigned from Local 25 and Joint Council 10 on March 1, 2022, in order to serve full-time as General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. [4] O'Brien was sworn into office as the 11th General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the union's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on March 22 ...
After 15 days, the Teamsters and UPS came to a five-year contract agreement that ended the strike. In addition, the starting pay rate of $8 per hour for part-timers was to be raised by 50 cents, while drivers were to make an additional $3.10 on top of their average $19.95 hourly rate, and part-time workers would be granted an additional $4.10 ...
The strike is just the latest effort by the Teamsters and other unions to organize workers at Amazon, the nation’s second-largest private sector employer, which has more than 740,000 US workers ...