Spectrum News 1: “Workers at the Amazon Air Hub in northern Kentucky, the company’s largest air hub, walked off the job Wednesday, July 24, in what the International Brotherhood of Teamsters called a “one-day unfair labor practice strike.”
In a news release, the union said workers were striking over issues concerning “surveillance, discrimination and retaliation for engaging in union activity.”
During the strike, Amazon workers and drivers, along with Teamsters leaders, rallied and spoke about what they said were Amazon’s “numerous violations of federal labor law, mistreatment of workers and refusal to bargain in good faith for a fair contract,” according to the union. “