Teamsters Launch new Amazon Division

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced on Tuesday they formed an new division, this one focused specifically on Amazon.

According to the union, the division will unite Amazon employees, secure more workplace protections in the warehouse and logistics industry, and defend workers.

“For 120 years, the Teamsters have proudly and ferociously protected transportation, logistics, and delivery workers, and we refuse to allow Amazon to continue to abuse and disrespect the more than one million Americans it employs,” said Sean M. O’Brien, General President of the Teamsters. “The Teamsters are best positioned to coordinate and secure guaranteed protections for these workers, and Amazon knows it. Our new division affords a nationwide network of resources to all Amazon workers, behind the wheel of any truck or hard at work in any facility, to strategize with the union, mobilize in their communities, and succeed together.”

The Teamsters alleges that while Amazon employs up to one third of the warehouse workers in the U.S., it is responsible for half of all workplace injuries in that sector.

Local 1932 represents 14,000 Teamsters across Southern California and in San Bernardino, Amazon’s most consequential logistics hub in North America.