Amazon labor strike at multiple facilities continues with more NY workers to join heres the latest

Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union continued a strike Friday at seven of the company’s delivery hubs just days before Christmas.At midnight on Saturday, workers at a prominent unionized warehouse in New York will also join, the Teamsters said.However, the union has not indicated how many employees were participating in any of the walkouts or when it will end.The workers, who voted to authorize strikes in recent days, first joined picket lines on Thursday after Amazon ignored a Sunday deadline the union had set for contract negotiations.

Meanwhile, workers at Starbucks stores said they were going on a five-day strike starting Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the coffee company.The e-commerce giant has a couple hundred employees at each delivery station and thousands at the New York City warehouse, which is known as JFK8 and located in the borough of Staten Island.A spokesperson for the company said Amazon did not expect the strike to impact holiday shipments.The Teamsters mainly have focused on organizing delivery drivers, who work for contractors that handle package deliveries for the company.

But Amazon has rebuffed demands to come to the negotiating table since it doesn’t consider the drivers to be its employees.Here’s what else you need to know:The strikes are taking place at three delivery hubs in Southern California, and one each in San Francisco, New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, and Skokie, Illinois, according to the union’s announcement.The Teamsters haven’t formally indicated when the actions will end, but Vinnie Perrone, the president of a local Teamsters union in metro New York, said Thursday that the walkout would continue “as long as it takes.”The union, which claims to represent 10,000 Amazon workers at 10 facilities, said workers in more locations were prepared to join the fight.Beginning on Saturday, that will include Amazon employees at the New York warehouse, which unionized w...