But Amazon's 275,000 drivers are hired through 3,000 third-party subcontractors, with whom Amazon can cancel contracts with little explanation or warning, making it particularly difficult for workers to unionize or fight to improve conditions.ĭespite the fact that workers who deliver Amazon packages sport branded vests, shirts, and pants drive Amazon-branded trucks have schedules and wage floors set by Amazon receive routes from an Amazon app and can be disciplined and fired by Amazon, the company claims they aren't technically employees. UPS, whose iconic brown-uniformed drivers are directly employed by the company, recently agreed to install air conditioners in their trucks after drivers across the country picketed work sites and threatened to strike. UPS has reported at least 143 heat-related injuries on the job in recent years, and a United States Postal Service driver recently died of heat exposure. Heat exposure affects delivery drivers across companies. Last August, after the drivers prepared a list of demands around pay, safety, and extreme temperatures, Amazon responded by offering workers two 16-ounce bottles of water a day.

RIGHT NOW the drivers are extending their picket line to a Norwood, MA Amazon warehouse! Amazon must end its dozens of unfair labor practices and bargain to address low pay and dangerous working conditions /CXxPBdACmY- Amazon Teamsters July 8, 2023 California Amazon drivers have picketed SEVEN WAREHOUSES in FOUR STATES!

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