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The largest to-date strikes organised by the Teamsters union rattled Amazon facilities across the US before Christmas
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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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