Teamsters Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon in U.S. History, Including at DBK4 in Queens

The Teamsters yesterday launched the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history, following Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters.

Workers have joined the picket line from DBK4 in Maspeth, Queens; DGT8 in Atlanta; DFX4, DAX5, and DAX8 in Southern California; DCK6 in San Francisco; and DIL7 in Skokie, Ill. Amazon Teamsters at other facilities are prepared to join them.

Teamsters local unions are also putting up primary picket lines at hundreds of Amazon Fulfillment Centers nationwide. Amazon warehouse workers and drivers without collective bargaining agreements have the legal right to honor these picket lines by withholding their labor. Amazon is the second-largest corporation on the Fortune 500 list. Despite being worth more than $2 trillion, the company fails to pay its workers enough to make ends meet. Nearly 10,000 Amazon workers have mobilized a movement and joined the Teamsters. They are fighting for higher wages, better benefits, and safer conditions at work.

“I’ve seen the Teamsters win big battles,” said Dia Ortiz, a worker at DBK4 in Maspeth. “We’re ready to do what it takes to win this one.” Join the picket line In Maspeth at 55-15 Grand Ave, read more here, and follow the Local 804 Maspeth workers' fight (and keep up with more opportunities to show support) here.