Amazon Contract Drivers in California Join Teamsters Union
- Teamsters are demanding better wages, working conditions
- Amazon is grappling with widespread labor unrest in the US
An Amazon.com Inc. delivery driver carries a package from a delivery van.
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More than 80 contract drivers and dispatchers who handle deliveries for Amazon.com Inc. have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, marking the labor movement’s latest attempt to infiltrate the company’s e-commerce empire.
The drivers work for one of many Amazon Delivery Service Partners, small businesses that rent vans, hire drivers and ferry packages for the e-commerce giant. The workers in Palmdale, California, east of Los Angeles, are joining Teamsters Local 396, the union announced Monday.