Amazon Teamsters Are Setting Up Pickets Nationwide to Demand a Contract
This spring, Amazon delivery drivers unionized with the Teamsters — but the logistics giant refuses to bargain with them. The workers are now setting up picket lines at Amazon warehouses across the country, joined by fellow Teamsters from other employers.
An Amazon delivery driver carries boxes into a van outside of a distribution facility on February 2, 2021 in Hawthorne, California. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)
Brandi Diaz was at a customer’s door in Palmdale, California, delivering stuff for Amazon, when the customer asked her, “What’s the difference between you and UPS drivers?”
“He said the difference is UPS is union, Amazon is not. He referred to us as ‘Jeff’s Bozos.’”
“I am no longer Bezos’s Bozo!” Diaz said over honks and chants from two hundred Teamsters from six different locals and some labor allies at a picket line outside an Amazon warehouse in northern New Jersey on July 6.
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