More Amazon Drivers in Illinois Organize with the Teamsters, Demand Union Recognition

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After Key Victory at NLRB, Amazon Workers Continue to Build Power, Call for Change

(SKOKIE, Ill.) – Even more Amazon drivers at the company’s DIL7 delivery station in Skokie, Ill., are demanding that Amazon recognize the Teamsters Union and deliver a labor contract.

The movement to organize in Skokie became public in June when 100 Amazon drivers went on strike over Amazon’s unfair labor practices. Those workers organized their union at one of Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners (DSPs) located at the station. The new organizing push has now spread to all four Amazon DSPs in Skokie — with a majority of drivers having signed authorization cards with Teamsters Local 705.

The workers are demanding Amazon recognize them as one union of Amazon drivers and bargain a Teamsters contract with fair wages, affordable health care, and safe working conditions.

“Amazon has taken its workers for granted for too long. We’ve had enough,” said Riley Holzworth, an Amazon Driver at DIL7.”We demand a Teamsters contract and that Amazon begin treating us with the respect we deserve. Amazon workers in Skokie are united and ready to fight for change at Amazon.”

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