Amazon Teamsters Become First Union to Win Bargaining Order Against E-Commerce Giant

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Source: Teamsters

Ruling from National Labor Relations Board Orders Company to Recognize Teamsters

(WASHINGTON) – In a historic decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that Amazon illegally refused to recognize the Staten Island-based Amazon Labor Union-International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1 (ALU-IBT 1) and ordered it to begin negotiations with the Teamsters.

“Four years ago, Amazon workers at JFK8 won an NLRB election. Now, on this monumental anniversary, they have become the first group ever to force the company to recognize their union, and they did so as Teamsters,” said Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien. “This fight is far from over but this ruling from the NLRB is an historic victory for Amazon Teamsters nationwide and a testament to worker power.”

Over 5,000 warehouse workers at the JFK8 facility in Staten Island formed their union on April 1, 2022. In June 2024, they officially affiliated with the Teamsters Union, which officially chartered ALU-IBT Local 1. Over the past four years, NLRB has repeatedly found that Amazon has illegally and willfully ignored the union’s legitimacy while attempting to coerce JFK8 Teamsters into ending their organizing efforts.

“Amazon’s strategy these last few years has been to delay, delay, delay – and the NLRB confirmed it because the law is not on their side,” said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. “Amazon Teamsters know that this company will try to do anything it can to worm out of its responsibilities. The Teamsters will continue to build worker power at Amazon and hold the company accountable wherever it violates the law.”

Read more: https://teamster.org/2026/04/amazon-teamsters-become-first-union-to-win-bargaining-order-against-e-commerce-giant/

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1. Good.

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2. YAY! Unions.

Two Teamsters’ Cannery Workers’ Union jobs allowed our family to afford to buy a car and a house and live a solid subsistence life.
I always wonder at the logic behind not joining a Union. I think those that refuse don’t really comprehend the dynamic they are trapped in. When you are one puny little man, you have NO power at all, except to take what’s on offer. And, because everybody else has your same clout, conditions and compensation NEVER CHANGE, unless the bosses suffer a stroke and somehow give a fuck.
Almost every group forced to defend themselves organizes and strategizes in order to successfully prevail.
AND… every Corporation that ever was is a group that organizes and strategizes in order to successfully prevail.
The Boy David and his sling might have stopped the Giant, but his story is so unbelievable they had to build a Religion around it.
We can’t all be Audie Murphy and stare-down a tank with our side-arm.
That’s why "We’re Better Together” is True.
Having the Intelligence to learn to work together is often cited as the trait that saved our species from extinction long enough for us to be able to bring it about ourselves.
Unions are good for Workers.
That’s why they’re reviled so by The Bosses