If Only Union Members Cared About Labor Policy…
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What the surge of Trumpian union members has shown is that nothing about economic policy matters to union voters, except perhaps if the price of gas goes up 10 cents a gallon. It’s all the culture war now. One of the many ways that the Biden administration has acted in great ways toward unions is the NLRB’s joint employer decision that does away with the fiction that using contractors means that the workers for gigantic corporations are not in fact working for a gigantic corporation but rather the contractor. Now the NLRB is going after Amazon for refusing to bargain with a drivers union that it claims doesn’t work for it, wink wink.
Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab has been accused by a U.S. labor board of illegally refusing to bargain with a union representing drivers employed by a contractor, the agency announced on Wednesday.
The complaint from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) claims that Amazon is a so-called “joint employer” of drivers employed by the contractor, Battle Tested Strategies (BTS), and used a series of illegal tactics to discourage union activities at a facility in Palmdale, California.
BTS drivers voted to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union last year, becoming the first Amazon delivery contractors to unionize.
The NLRB in a complaint issued on Monday said Amazon broke the law by terminating its contract with BTS after the drivers unionized, without first bargaining with the Teamsters.
The board had said in August that it had found merit to the union’s claims that Amazon exerts control over BTS drivers and should be considered their employer under federal labor law. The NLRB at the time said it would issue a complaint unless Amazon settled the case.
The board said last month it planned to issue a second complaint involving a different group of Amazon drivers.
Of course this is about the Teamsters. But Trump makes Sean O’Brien feel so manly!