“I’ve felt dizzy and dehydrated, but if I take a break, I’ll get a call asking why I’m behind on deliveries. “The back of an Amazon van feels like an oven in the summer,” said Cecilia Porter, another driver on strike, in a statement. Earlier this week, the Teamsters won a tentative agreement with UPS guaranteeing improved heat protections and air conditioning in trucks.
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Motherboard has previously reported on how UPS drivers must deal with temperatures of over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. Heat is an industry-wide hazard for delivery drivers. The drivers’ contract with the DSP guarantees a higher wage, protections against the extreme heat of California summers, and the right to refuse unsafe deliveries. We should be able to provide food and clothes for our kids.” “We work hard for a multibillion-dollar corporation. “We are on the picket line today to demand the pay and safety standards that we deserve,” said Raj Singh, one unionized driver on strike, in a statement. For the past month, the union has been trying to prove that wrong, saying that, despite Amazon placing all responsibility onto the DSP, it is in fact in “complete control” of the DSP’s operations.
Drivers have already negotiated and ratified a contract with the DSP, which voluntarily recognized their union.Īmazon has previously stated that, because the drivers don’t work directly for Amazon-they work for the DSP, which is then contracted by Amazon-that the company is not obligated to bargain with them. The drivers, who work for the Amazon delivery service partner (DSP) Battle-Tested Strategies in Palmdale, California, unionized with the Teamsters in late April, and are demanding that Amazon come to the bargaining table to negotiate a contract.
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