NYPD Arrests Workers During Historic Amazon Strike

[Omaha Steve]

Police cracked down on striking drivers in Queens who blocked deliveries.



By Luis Feliz Leon December 19, 2024

NEW YORK CITY — On December 19 thousands of Amazon workers organizing with the Teamsters launched a cascade of unfair practice strikes from coast to coast at the logistics giant.

At the picket line in Queens, New York, police arrested and released Anthony Rosario, a Teamsters organizer, and Jogernsyn Cardenas, one of the striking workers, and then threatened mass arrests before breaking the line in two to allow vans through.

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Six other facilities in California, Illinois and Georgia are also on strike and the JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y. will soon follow suit.

The Teamsters are striking Amazon because the company refuses to recognize the unions at its delivery stations and fulfillment center and bargain with its workers. The union has argued that under the new joint-employer standard the delivery drivers are also legally employees of Amazon, which Amazon disputes.

FULL story at link above.

[dchill]

1. "Police cracked down..."

About to become a commonplace phrase in our smooth, polished media.

[SheltieLover]

2. Just like the days gone by that birthed Pinkertons to bust unions

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Did not renew my Prime last month.

Just go back now to watch the movies I bought over the years.

Good to see the NYPD once again on the right side of progress.

[Basso8vb]

4. Fuck tha Police

[IbogaProject]

5. Class trators w badges

I bet it isnt totally legal for cops to interfear w strikers beyond enforcing laws.