A strike started Thursday on several sites in the United States of the American distribution giant Amazon, a few days before the end of year holidays, to demand in particular salary increases, a union announced in a press release.
The social movement started at 1 a.m. Thursday due to the refusal of Amazon management to negotiate with thousands of employees, the Teamsters union reported on its website. The union, which represents American truck drivers, criticizes the behemoth for refusing to recognize it and negotiate with it.
According to him, nearly 10,000 employees have joined him to demand wage increases and better working conditions from Amazon.
“If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed. We’ve given Amazon a clear deadline to come to the negotiating table and do the right thing for our members. They ignored it,” union leader Sean O’Brien was quoted as saying in the press release.
The walkouts are expected to include locations in New York, Atlanta, Georgia, Southern California, San Francisco, Northern California, and Skokie, Illinois.
Local branches of the union are also setting up picket lines at hundreds of Amazon fulfillment centers across the country, The Teamsters says.
Last year, Amazon made a net profit of more than $30 billion, on revenue of $575 billion.
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