6/3/2023 0 Comments The big short amazonBut the century-old union thinks the stakes are that high, calling the $1.7 trillion (market cap) company an “existential threat” to industry standards around pay and working conditions it has long fought for. This type of local outreach is beginning to unfold across the nation as part of a push by the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters, one of the biggest and most powerful unions in the nation, to unionize Amazon after it voted overwhelmingly to go after the e-commerce giant in a resolution this summer. He didn’t realize it,” says Jefferson, 59, a forklift operator who used to work for UPS and has been part of the Teamsters union for 15 years. Jefferson told him UPS drivers make twice as much. In one recent conversation, a driver told him he had been getting a raise every few weeks - 15 cents here, 35 cents there, bringing his total hourly wage to $17.35 after two years on the job.
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