The International Brother of Teamsters has given Amazon until December 15 to agree to bargaining dates for a union contract with delivery drivers and warehouse workers, or "face the consequences of its inaction." 

"The Teamsters are done asking nicely for Amazon to stop breaking the law," Teamsters general president Sean O'Brien said in a December 6 release. "We will protect our members at all costs, and we are prepared to come after Amazon with the full force of the Teamsters Union if and when necessary to get the contract workers have earned."

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The Teamsters have partnerships with workers at Amazon facilities across the U.S., including an air hub in Kentucky, a distribution center in California, and Staten Island's JFK8 warehouse. Now, the Teamsters are pushing for a national contract proposal for all delivery drivers and warehouse workers looking to organize. If Amazon does not come to the table, the national union and its 1.3 million members will be "ready to take the fight directly to the company's doorstep in every state," Teamsters Amazon division director Randy Korgan vowed. 

Amazon has frequently been accused of illegal union busting, ranging from alleged threats to fire employees for handing out union materials in the parking lot of the Kentucky facility in 2023, to a ruling from a federal judge that same year, who found that in 2022, supervisors at JFK8 had threatened to withhold wage and benefit increases if workers voted to unionize. JFK8 is the first and only Amazon warehouse in the U.S. to successfully unionize, although Amazon has refused to formally recognize or bargain with the nascent union.