{"id":2651,"date":"2024-12-19T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/2024\/12\/19\/historic-strike-teamsters-take-on-amazon-nationwide-including-nyc\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T12:39:42","slug":"historic-strike-teamsters-take-on-amazon-nationwide-including-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/historic-strike-teamsters-take-on-amazon-nationwide-including-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Strike: Teamsters Take On Amazon Nationwide, Including NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Distributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYC Newswire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Teamsters to Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thursday, December 19, the Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history. The nationwide action comes in response to Amazon\u2019s refusal to bargain with thousands of workers who have organized under the Teamsters.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Stand Against Corporate Greed<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Teamsters General President Sean M. O\u2019Brien did not hold back in his statement. \u201cIf your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon\u2019s insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a clear deadline to come to the table and do right by our members. They ignored it,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. He condemned Amazon executives for failing to show respect for the workers who drive their profits, stating, \u201cThis strike is on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18547\" src=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/12\/Teamsters-Launch-Largest-Strike-against-Amazon-in-American-History-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Nationwide Action with Key Locations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Picket lines will form at major Amazon facilities, including DBK4 in New York City, DGT8 in Atlanta, and several sites in California, San Francisco, and Skokie, Illinois. Additional picket lines will be established at hundreds of Amazon Fulfillment Centers across the country. Teamsters are also calling on non-union Amazon warehouse workers and drivers to exercise their legal right to honor these picket lines.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Workers Demand Respect and Fairness<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;This is historic,\u201d said Leah Pensler, a warehouse worker in San Francisco. \u201cWe are fighting against a vicious union-busting campaign, and we are going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite being the second-largest corporation on the Fortune 500, worth more than $2 trillion, Amazon has been criticized for failing to provide workers with adequate wages and working conditions. \u201cAmazon does not respect us or our right to negotiate,\u201d said Gabriel Irizarry, a driver in Illinois. \u201cWe can\u2019t even afford to pay our bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Growing Movement for Change<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Nearly 10,000 Amazon workers have joined the Teamsters, uniting in their demands for higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the Teamsters win big battles,\u201d said Dia Ortiz, a New York worker. \u201cWe\u2019re ready to do what it takes to win this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>News Distributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYC Newswire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Distributed by NYC Newswire Teamsters to Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon Beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thursday, December 19, the Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5887,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-economics","category-union-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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