The Union Difference
Channel: TEAMSTERS POWER
Date: 2020-12-16

Our brothers and sisters at Teamsters Local 1932, led by Secretary-Treasurer Randy Korgan, have an important message for Amazon delivery drivers and Teamsters across the country...

"Americans everywhere need to experience the union difference so that they can thrive. Amazon is set to become America’s largest private employer over the next few years with an entirely non-union workforce. Hundreds of thousands of Amazon workers and contractors, who are the backbone of Jeff Bezos’s empire, face unsafe workplaces and unreasonable production quotas. While Amazon initially relied heavily on UPS, FedEx, and the USPS for package delivery, it now delivers more than half of its own packages in Prime-branded delivery vans operated by subcontractors. The company’s subcontracted drivers typically make $15-$18 per hour and have limited benefits while facing ever-increasing delivery quotas as they deliver packages in communities throughout the United States.

This is fast becoming the new normal. The only way we can change this is by coming together to organize for something better."