Teamsters union launches historic nationwide strike against Amazon: 'Paying the price'
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Thousands of Amazon workers organized under the Teamsters union went on strike at 6 a.m. Thursday after the company's «repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain.»
Amazon Teamsters at seven facilities in Skokie, Illinois; New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco and Southern California are participating in the «largest strike» against the trillion-dollar company in American history, the union said in a news release. Workers at other facilities are prepared to join them.
Though Teamsters says it represents about 10,000 people across ten Amazon facilities in the U.S., the company doesn't recognize workers' affiliation with the union.
Amazon says the Teamsters union is «intentionally [misleading] the public» because they don't represent Amazon employees and drivers, company spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement to Fox Business.
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Amazon workers associated with the Teamsters union are walking off the job at seven facilities across the country in a historic strike against the trillion-dollar company. (Nathan Stirk/Getty Images / Getty Images)
«For more than a year now, the Teamsters have continued to intentionally mislead the public – claiming that they represent ‘thousands of Amazon employees and drivers’. They don’t, and this is another attempt to push a false narrative,» Nantel said. «The truth is that the Teamsters have actively threatened, intimidated, and attempted to coerce Amazon employees and third-party drivers to join them, which is illegal and is the subject of
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