Mid-Month Tangent: The Nascent Amazon Labor Union Is Now Affiliated With The... Teamsters...

This move offers much broader lobbyist support, and deeper pockets, as it is a near certainty that the litigation to force Amazon management to sit down and bargain is going to drag on for years, now -- after a Second Circuit decision on JFK8 slowed the process this week.

The case has been returned to the NLRB for further proceedings, but it will no longer contain an absolute ban on firing the union organizers. What it really means. . . is several more years, unless the Teamsters start a two minute drill, on the ALU's behalf. Do stay tuned, but here's a bit:

. . .“Today is a historic day for labor in America as we now combine forces with one of the most powerful unions to take on Amazon together,” ALU president and co-founder Chris Smalls wrote on X. “Our message is clear we want a Contract and we want it Now.” Smalls did not respond to a message and a phone call from THE CITY seeking comment.

Reached for comment on Thursday, an Amazon spokesperson told THE CITY the company had nothing to say about the affiliation news.

Union and reform leadership had been in talks with the Teamsters for several weeks on an agreement that would charter the union as an autonomous Teamsters local, including at a mid-May summit in Washington, D.C. The rank and file will vote to approve the merger in the coming weeks. . . .

That's our monthly check in -- on various union matters, at Jeff Bezos' modern day robber-baron of a behemoth (over 1.5 million employees). Out.

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