It also operates a number of logistics centers across the region. Amazon, which has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the region, opened a regional air hub in San Bernardino in 2021, the seventh Amazon air site in California, and has plans to finish construction of its largest fulfillment center in Ontario in 2024. Over 1,100 warehouses have been constructed in the area since 2010, the Guardian reported in December. The union said the new UPS contract will set “a new standard in the labor movement.”Īs the popularity of online shopping has grown, so has the logistics industry’s presence in Southern California. United Parcel Service drivers, who are also represented by the Teamsters and do some deliveries for Amazon, reached a tentative contract with UPS this Wednesday, averting a potential national strike. We’re taking what Amazon did and holding them accountable.” Their business model has been misleading. “We’re trying to show Amazon that they need to rewrite their operations because what they’re doing is illegal. “In my 30 years I’ve never seen a more restrictive relationship between a company and its subcontracting agency,” Korgan said.
The director of the Teamsters’ Amazon division, Randy Korgan, said that the level of control Amazon had over the drivers’ working conditions, which included dictating routes and performance expectations, meant the retail giant was acting as a joint employer with BTS and therefore was ignoring its responsibility to bargain with the drivers.
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The Teamsters allege that Amazon terminated BTS’ contract in retaliation for the drivers unionizing and have filed a complaint against Amazon with the National Labor Relations Board.
He claimed that Amazon ended the contract because he had voiced concerns about his employees’ working conditions. In mid-June, Ervin told Wired that he was contesting the breaches and that he resolved three of the breaches last year, although they remained on BTS’ record. Hards said that Amazon canceled the contract due to six breaches of contract including failing to pay its insurance providers. However, on April 14, weeks before the union’s public announcement, Amazon told Ervin that it would terminate its contract with BTS on June 24, months before it was originally set to expire in October. At the time, BTS owner Johnathon Ervin told Bloomberg News that he hoped to include Amazon in the bargaining process to further enhance the morale and welfare of the drivers. The dispute leading up to the strike began in late April, when 84 Palmdale contract drivers for Amazon joined Teamsters Local 396, settling a tentative contract with BTS, which agreed to voluntarily recognize the union. JA previous version of this article misidentified Teamsters Local 396 as Local 365.
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