Atlanta Amazon Drivers Join Teamsters Union

[Omaha Steve]

https://teamster.org/2024/12/atlanta-amazon-drivers-join-teamsters-union-2/

DTG5 Drivers Among Thousands of Teamsters Demanding Amazon Bargain Contract

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(ATLANTA) – Amazon drivers at the company’s DGT5 facility in Atlanta have formed a union with the Teamsters and demanded union recognition with a “March on the Boss” today. The Atlanta drivers’ demand for recognition comes just weeks after neighboring drivers at the DGT8 facility organized with the Teamsters. With this announcement, nine Amazon locations and more than 7,000 Amazon workers have organized with the Teamsters across the country.

Amazon associates are now in holiday peak season, working long hours to manage high demand while being pushed to meet dangerous quotas. For drivers, this means hundreds of stops a day to deliver a massive volume of packages at breakneck speed. DTG5 drivers have organized to secure better pay and benefits, safer conditions, and a voice on the job.

“The pay we get for the work we do is absurd. Amazon is a trillion dollar company, but many of us struggle to pay our bills, our rent, medical expenses, even groceries,” said Anna Ruth Brown, an Amazon Teamster at DTG5. “We came together and joined the Teamsters because we are ready to fight back. Amazon has gotten away with its egregious mistreatment for too long. Both drivers and warehouse workers across the U.S. are standing up and demanding respect and a voice on the job, and because there are more of us than there are of them, we know we will win.”

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[Henry203]

1. I turn onto that road

Every time I go over to Buford highway. Great that they joined the teamsters. For a short period my brother probably worked there.

[Faux pas]

2. K n R