Tell Amazon the American Public Backs Striking Workers! Amazon Must Negotiate Better Wage, Benefits, and Working Conditions Now!

Amazon is the second-largest corporation on the Fortune 500 list. Despite being worth more than $2 trillion, the company fails to pay its workers enough to make ends meet.

This global corporation has repeatedly refused to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters. This morning the Teamsters launched the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history.

Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien put it perfectly:

If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a clear deadline to come to the table and do right by our members. They ignored it. These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible. Instead, they’ve pushed workers to the limit and now they’re paying the price. This strike is on them.

It’s been two-and-a-half years since Amazon workers at JFK8 voted to become the first Amazon warehouse to form a union. Nearly 10,000 Amazon workers have mobilized a movement and joined the Teamsters since then. They are fighting for higher wages, better benefits, and safer conditions at work and they still don’t have a contract.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk is tanking the government and Amazon Owner Jeff Bezos goes to kiss the Trump ring at Mar-a-Lago as he faces this full-scale Amazon worker revolt by Teamsters nationwide.

Workers will join the picket line from New York City to Atlanta to Southern California to San Francisco and in Skokie, Illinois. Amazon Teamsters at other facilities are prepared to join them.

Teamsters local unions are also putting up primary picket lines at hundreds of Amazon Fulfillment Centers nationwide. Amazon warehouse workers and drivers without collective bargaining agreements have the legal right to honor these picket lines by withholding their labor.

Amazon workers are doing what they must do in this moment where Amazon cannot shove them aside and ignore them any longer, but they shouldn’t have to do it alone.

Click ‘START WRITING’ to sign and send a direct message to Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, CEO Andy Jassy, and the rest of the Board of Directors demanding Amazon come to the table and negotiate better wages, benefits, and working conditions with workers now.

For more information, check out our exclusive report telling the story of Amazon workers in their own words below:

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