Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday morning, hoping to force negotiations for a labor contract after the delivery and retail giant ignored union requests to begin talks by a Dec. 15 deadline.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents around 10,000 Amazon workers and contractors, hopes to apply maximum pressure by timing the strike during the holiday delivery rush. Amazon, which employs around 1 million hourly workers and reported $39 billion in net income for the first nine months of this year, insists that operations will continue as normal.
