Efforts to Organize Amazon Are Advancing Across the US
Last week, Amazon warehouse workers in San Francisco organizing with the Teamsters marched on the boss to demand union recognition. It’s one of many organizing efforts targeting the logistics giant that are gaining ground across the country.
Workers in support of the unionization and collective bargaining of Amazon delivery drivers at the Teamsters Local 848 on August 29, 2024, in Long Beach, California. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)
The Teamsters are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain.
A group of one hundred warehouse workers at DCK6, an Amazon delivery station in San Francisco, marched on company managers October 2 demanding voluntary recognition rather than filing for a National Labor Relations Board–supervised election.
In the Teamsters’ strategy to organize the logistics behemoth by a thousand cuts, this is the first time that warehouse workers — rather than delivery drivers nominally employed by a subcontractor — have demanded recognition.
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