Amazon Labor Union companions with Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters in New York

Amazon staff have taken one other step in the direction of combating for employee protections. The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is teaming up with the Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), a century-plus-old labor union lively in the USA and Canada. The duo introduced the partnership in a joint assertion on X (previously Twitter) following a vote that noticed 98.3 p.c of ALU members in favor of it.

“Collectively, with exhausting work, braveness, and conviction, the Teamsters and ALU will combat fearlessly to make sure Amazon staff safe the great jobs and protected working circumstances they deserve in a union contract,” Teamsters Normal President Sean M. O’Brien stated in a press release. ALU-IBT Native 1 will characterize about 5,500 JFK8 Amazon warehouse staff in Staten Island however will “have jurisdiction” for warehouse staff all through New York Metropolis.

Staten Island served as a degree of pleasure when, in April 2022, the ALU secured sufficient votes to make JFK8 Amazon’s first unionized warehouse within the US — one 12 months after the ALU fashioned. Nevertheless, Amazon tried overturning the vote, alleging “inappropriate and undue affect” from the Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The battle has since escalated, with the NLRB accusing Amazon of discriminating in opposition to the unionized staff in Staten Island and Amazon claiming in a authorized submitting earlier this 12 months that the NLRB is “unconstitutional.”

Because the combat continues, ALU President Chris Smalls states that “having the help of 1.3 million Teamsters to tackle Amazon offers us large employee energy and the alternatives to demand higher circumstances for our members and, most significantly, to safe a contract at JFK8.”