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\t\t\t\t\t\tAmazon Leads State in Killing Logistics Jobs, Teamsters File Complaint with New York Department of Labor<\/p>\n
Press Contact: Matt McQuaid\u00a0Phone: (771) 241-0015\u00a0Email: mmcquaid@teamster.org<\/p>\n
(NEW YORK) \u2013 Today, Teamsters were joined by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), the Action Lab, and the Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN) in releasing a report<\/a> exposing Amazon as the leading violator of the New York State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (NY WARN) Act.<\/p>\n The union simultaneously filed a complaint<\/a> with the New York Department of Labor over Amazon\u2019s WARN Act violations, demanding that the Office of the Commissioner of Labor investigate Amazon\u2019s control of its third-party contractors, or Delivery Service Partners (DSPs), and the company\u2019s failure to follow the law. Amazon uses DSPs as shell corporations to shield itself from the legal responsibility the company owes to its workforce.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is yet another reason why Amazon is a parasitic white-collar crime syndicate,\u201d said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. \u201cJeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and the rest of the crooks who run this company can\u2019t find a labor law that they don\u2019t want to violate, but the Teamsters have bad news for Amazon: the law has a way of catching up with you.\u201d<\/p>\n Most DSPs have Amazon as their only \u201ccustomer,\u201d so when Amazon terminates a contract, the entire DSP shuts down. The NY WARN Act requires private employers with more than 50 workers in the state to either provide severance or give workers at least 90 days advance written notice before mass layoffs affecting 25 people or more.<\/p>\n \u201cAmazon sells itself to communities as a \u2018job creator,\u2019 but today\u2019s revelations should dispel that notion completely,\u201d said Tom Gesualdi, President of Teamsters Joint Council 16. \u201cIn reality, Amazon has killed more jobs in the logistics industry than any other company in New York. The Teamsters and our allies will not allow Amazon to continue harming its workers or our communities with its illegal actions.\u201d<\/p>\n The report demonstrates that since 2018, Amazon has closed 35 DSPs in the state, resulting in the loss of over 3,500 jobs. Amazon\u2019s job-killing makes up an outsized percentage of layoffs across New York\u2019s entire transportation and warehousing industry. A full 25 percent of all workers laid off in the industry since 2023 have been Amazon drivers. A majority of Amazon drivers never received the advance notice required by law, and Amazon may owe as much as $11 million in back wages.<\/p>\n \u201cI worked for two DSPs that Amazon closed without enough notice or severance, leaving me and my family stranded,\u201d said Maria Degante, who worked at Amazon\u2019s DBK4 location in Queens. \u201cBut we aren\u2019t going away quietly. My co-workers and I are organizing to demand that Amazon pay us what we are owed and pass the Delivery Protection Act at the New York City Council, so this never happens to another driver.\u201d<\/p>\n The Delivery Protection Act, which Teamsters and their allies are campaigning to pass in New York City, which would end Amazon\u2019s subcontracting shell game and force the company to directly hire its drivers.<\/p>\n \u201cThis report, which shows frequent mass layoffs and WARN Act violations at Amazon\u2019s captive DSPs, highlights that they are not bona fide independent businesses but pawns of a giant corporation that needs to be held accountable for their operations,\u201d said Paul Sonn, State Policy Program Director at NELP. \u201cNew York City\u2019s proposed Delivery Protection Act would do just that \u2014 and the city council should act swiftly to approve it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAmazon uses and abuses workers, then throws them away. And guess what: the DSPs Amazon claims to protect are no less vulnerable,\u201d said Daisy Chung, ALIGN Campaigns Director. \u201cToday\u2019s report adds to the pile of evidence that Amazon will put profit over people every time, even if they have to kill jobs, hurt workers, and destroy communities to do it. We need the Delivery Protection Act now to demand justice for Amazon workers and force a trillion-dollar company to answer for their harms.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis new data shows that Amazon is disproportionately behind sudden, permanent closures in the transportation and warehousing sector in New York \u2014 and it\u2019s happening again and again,\u201d said Irene Tung, Director of Program and Policy at the Action Lab. \u201cThe company is using a shell game to lay off delivery drivers without giving them notice as required under the law, then leaving them to fight for backpay they\u2019re often never able to collect. The Delivery Protection Act is urgently needed to make Amazon directly accountable to the drivers whose livelihoods it controls. New York must investigate this pattern, and the City Council must move swiftly to pass this common-sense reform.\u201d<\/p>\n Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents over 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org<\/a> for more information. 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