Amazon’s first delivery workers to unionize were later fired – now they’re striking at warehouses

The online retail giant has terminated its contract with a California delivery contractor and denies it is the drivers’ joint employer

Drivers from an Amazon delivery station in California have been on strike since 24 June, and have taken their strike to picket lines at over 20 Amazon warehouses around the US, including Amazon facilities in New York, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut.

The effort is aimed at highlighting the plight of drivers who were fired after successfully forming a union and negotiating a contract with Amazon’s delivery partner.

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