Amazon workers at facilities around the state hit the picket lines Friday morning as several centers around the country go on strike.
With only days until Christmas, will this delay your packages? It’s more than likely there’s going to be some disruption.
Amazon is being hit by the strike nationally, and the picketers in Detroit, at least at the Detroit Fulfillment Center, are Teamsters Union workers. They’re trying to get organized and that’s what they’re doing all across the state, at nine locations.
Kevin Moore is the president of Michigan Teamsters. He says it’s just a matter of basic fairness to the workers.
“The only reason they started raising their pay is because the Teamsters organized them,” Moore said. “Their working conditions, some of them have to ask to go to the bathroom. Bezos and this company doesn’t know how to treat employees, but he’ll sit on his yacht and make billions of dollars.”
The company, for its part, says that the union is throwing up a false narrative. They’ve raised wages to $22 an hour starting pay and they are taking care of their workers, paying a portion of their healthcare.
