More workers at Amazon are threatening to strike, after the company failed to begin negotiations for improvements to pay, safety and job security with a union in New York by a deadline of December 15.

The strike threats, which started in New York, have now spread to Chicago and Atlanta. Workers at the Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island became the first in the U.S. to vote to unionize in March 2022. But the company has yet to begin negotiating its first contract with Amazon Labor Union (ALU-IBT Local 1). Workers are pushing Amazon workers at another New York City site, the delivery station DBK4 in Queens, also voted to strike in solidarity with the contract fight and their push for union recognition from the company.

The Teamsters union has been organizing workers at 10 Amazon facilities around the U.S. in California, Illinois, Georgia and New York.

Workers at two Amazon facilities near Atlanta, Georgia, and a delivery facility in Skokie, Illinois, outside of Chicago, also voted to authorize strikes December 15.

On December 16, a U.S. Senate investigation accused Amazon of manipulating workplace injury data to portray its warehouses as safer than they actually are, while promoting speed over workplace safety. Amazon retorted that the report is "wrong on the facts, and features selective, outdated information that lacks context and isn't grounded in reality."