Amazon Drivers Are Actually Just “Drivers Delivering for Amazon,” Amazon Says – By Julie Roscoe (VICE) / June 16, 2023
This is a very important difference.
Yesterday, drivers for one of Amazon’s delivery service partners in California went on strike to protest Amazon refusing to bargain a contract with them. These drivers, who unionized with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in late April, are the first drivers within Amazon to go on strike in the U.S.
Motherboard covered this story with the headline, “Amazon Delivery Drivers Walk Out in First-Ever Driver Strike.” This makes sense, given that it is what happened. Delivery drivers who work at an Amazon facility, deliver Amazon packages, and typically drive Amazon-branded trucks, walked out of their Amazon facility. Amazon, however, contests this point.
As a spokesperson for the company wrote in an email to Motherboard: these drivers are not Amazon drivers, actually, but drivers who deliver for Amazon, which is a very critical factual difference.
