Amazon Workers at Three Delivery Stations Just Staged a Walkout

Last week, workers at three of Amazon’s last-mile delivery centers in New York and Maryland walked off the job to demand better pay and working conditions. It's the latest action by Amazonians United, a group organizing Amazon workers across the US and Canada.

On the morning of March 16, 2022, over sixty Amazon workers at three delivery stations in New York and Maryland walked off the job. (Amazonians United New York City / Twitter)


Around sixty workers at three Amazon delivery stations — the final stop in the company’s logistics chain — staged a work stoppage early on the morning of March 16, 2022.

Amazonians United, a network of rank-and-file worker committees around the United States and Canada, coordinated the walkouts in New York City and Maryland in its latest show of shop floor strength.

The workers are demanding a $3 pay hike, an end to understaffing, and the reinstatement of twenty-minute breaks. Amazon announced it was trimming breaks back down to fifteen minutes at the end of last year, rescinding the extra time it had allowed workers during the pandemic.

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