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Union challenges Amazon's ruthless exploitation of its workforce
The largest to-date strikes organised by the Teamsters union rattled Amazon facilities across the US before Christmas
RESOLUTE: Amazon drivers went out on strike before the festive season

THE week before Christmas, Amazon workers at facilities across the US, organised by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), took on the world’s most profitable third-party logistics corporation by walking off the job by the hundreds.

Although this pre-holiday strike represented a minority of the Amazon workforce, it represented the largest strike against Amazon in US history.

Amazon’s profits keep breaking records, even within the context of a logistics industry that as a whole is experiencing a difficult freight market due to an oversupply of truck capacity.

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A pattern of injury and denial

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