Amazon’s unionized workers across multiple U.S. warehouses are set to go on strike Thursday morning after failed contract bargaining efforts, likely impacting the e-commerce giant’s operations during a key part of the holiday shopping season.
The strike is set impact operations across at least seven Amazon warehouses across the country.
In an announcement on Wednesday night, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said the strike will begin at 6 a.m. EST on Thursday and unionized workers from seven Amazon warehouses will join the picket line.
The strikes will impact Amazon warehouses in New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco, Skokie, Illinois and three other facilities in Southern California.
The Teamsters said Amazon was given a “clear deadline” to come to the negotiating table and discuss “better working conditions and wages” for the unionized workers, but the company “ignored it.”
The Teamsters say they represent around 10,000 Amazon workers, which represents only 1% of the 1 million full and part-time workers employed by the company in the U.S.
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“If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed…These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible. Instead, they’ve pushed workers to the limit and now they’re paying the price. This strike is on them,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said.