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Amazon Strike by the Numbers
Amazon workers and supporters picketed outside the JFK8 fulfillment center at midnight Saturday, December 21. Photo: Luis Feliz Leon
https://labornotes.org/2025/01/amazon-strike-numbers
January 06, 2025 / Luis Feliz Leon
An estimated 600 Amazon workers went on a short strike or participated in pickets from December 19 to Christmas Eve across eight warehouse locations, from Queens to San Francisco. The coordinated mobilization was an opening salvo to Amazon, and a test of capacity for the Teamsters’ growing national network.
The union says it represents between 7,000 and 10,000 Amazon workers, either by authorization election or majority demand for recognition: a fulfillment center on Staten Island, an air hub in Southern California, a delivery station warehouse in San Francisco, and a handful of delivery contractors. It had given the company a deadline to begin bargaining with all these workers, though no one expected Amazon to actually fold over the holidays.
The Teamsters also recruited stewards, retirees, and rank-and-file UPS workers to picket entrances to dozens of Amazon fulfillment warehouses nationwide. Picket-line extensions generally were handled by local officers and staff, and their effectiveness varied.
Amazon employs 740,000 workers across its warehouses and distribution centers, and 390,000 drivers nominally employed by 4,400 contractors, called Delivery Service Partners; Amazon retains full control of their operations.
FULL story at link above.