Delivery drivers are Amazon employees Federal labor regulator says

Federal labor regulator says delivery drivers are Amazon employees

 In a loss for Amazon that could force it to meet the Teamsters union at the logrolling table, a indigenous National Labor Relations Board director said Thursday that the company is a  common employer of some of the thousands of contractor delivery  motorists who deliver its packages. 

Thee-commerce  mammoth has  preliminarily argued that it should n't be responsible for alleged union busting or  needed to bargain with  motorist unions, because the  motorists who ferry packages to consumers’ doors in Amazon-  ingrained  vans work for third- party contractors called delivery service  mates, or DSPs. Thursday’s determination suggests that Amazon is wrong, chancing  that it failed to bargain in good faith after delivery  motorists in Palmdale, Calif.,  suggested to unionize in 2023, a first for the company’s delivery  motorists. The indigenous NLRB director also  set up that Amazon had immorally targeted  motorists in Palmdale with termination, hovered  workers, and held unlawful  interned  followership meetings, according to labor board  prophet Kayla Blado.The Palmdale  motorists worked for a DSP called Battle- Tested Strategies, which was terminated by Amazon as a contractor after its workers started organizing and where  operation freely  honored the union.However, the DSP and the delivery  motorists fail to reach a  agreement agreement in California, the board said it'll issue a complaint and schedule a  hail before an  executive law judge, If Amazon. Thursday’s determination by the NLRB applies only to the  motorists in Palmdale in regard to their union  crusade, and wo n’t have an immediate effect on the legal standing of Amazon  motorists writ large.The Teamsters union, which represents thousands of delivery  motorists for companies  similar as UPS and DHL, has been working to unionize Amazon workers since 2021. before this time, it  blazoned a formal  cooperation with the Amazon Labor Union, which is organizing Amazon  storehouse workers in places including New York and Kentucky.  Teamsters President Sean O’Brien called Thursday’s NLRB decision a “ monumental determination that makes clear Amazon has a legal obligation to bargain with its  motorists over their working conditions, ” in an posted statement.Amazon said the union is misrepresenting the situation. Amazon  prophet Eileen Hards in an dispatch statement said that the NLRB had notified the company that “  utmost of the Teamsters’ more significant claims ” in Palmdale had been dismissed. The indigenous office has indicated that it thinks some of the remaining allegations should be decided by an  executive law judge, ” Hards said. “ As we've said  each  on, there's no merit to the Teamsters’ claims.