Teamsters, Amazon Labor Union, and the Striking of a Scrappy Workers’ Collective Action. The Most Recent Teamsters Vote

“The Teamsters and ALU will fight fearlessly to ensure Amazon workers secure the good jobs and safe working conditions they deserve in a union contract,” Teamsters general president Sean O’Brien said in a statement, calling Amazon a “corporate bully” that “will have to answer to the Teamsters and ALU, standing together.”

After winning in Staten Island the Amazon Labor Union held elections in New York, but lost both of them. The group’s leader Chris Smalls — an Amazon worker who got fired after staging a pandemic-era walkout — originally argued that only a scrappy grassroots and independent effort could succeed at organizing his warehouse.

Workers at a warehouse in Alabama are waiting to hear if they’ll get a third chance at union representation. The most recent vote, which has remained too close to call since 2022, is being reviewed in a legal hearing expected to last most of the summer.