LIVE: Amazon Workers Strike at Seven US Facilities During Holiday Rush | New York | USA LIVE | CNBC TV18
Live coverage of Amazon workers picket line in Queens, New York. Amazon workers at seven US facilities, including locations in New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco, went on strike early Thursday, citing unfair treatment and unsafe working conditions during the peak holiday season.
With less than a week to go for Christmas, thousands of Amazon warehouse workers across four US states went on a strike on Thursday (Dec 19), leading to apprehensions that deliveries might be impacted during the busy festive period. The strike was called after the Jeff Bezos-owned company refused to start contract negotiations with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters - a labour union, claiming to represent 7,000 Amazon workers which accounts for less than one per cent of the company's US workforce.
Amazon Teamsters at seven facilities in Skokie, Illinois; New York City; Atlanta; San Francisco; and Southern California are part of the largest strike against the company with workers at other facilities preparing to join them as well. Although Teamsters claims that it represents nearly 10,000 Amazon workers across 10 facilities, the trillion-dollar company does not recognise workers' affiliation with the union.
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