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Amazon Teamsters marched on the boss in New York today after a corporate union buster hired by the trillion-dollar company verbally assaulted and repeatedly used a homophobic slur against an Amazon driver as he arrived for work.
Observed by multiple witnesses, including Amazon management, union buster Juan Carlos Cervantes of Government Resources Consultants of America attacked the Amazon employee during the morning of Nov. 26, at the company’s DBK4 facility in Queens. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters are filing unfair labor practice (ULP) charges against Amazon over the assault, as well as formal complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
During the incident, Cervantes verbally threatened the Amazon delivery driver with physical violence at work before loudly calling the Teamster a homophobic slur multiple times as he prepared for work. The driver was able to begin making deliveries as work got underway on Tuesday but was notified by Amazon management later in the day that the e-commerce giant was suspending him pending an investigation into the attack. As of Wednesday afternoon, Amazon told the Teamsters Union the worker remains suspended but would not respond about the union buster.
Between 2022-2023 alone, Amazon spent more than $17.2 million hiring corporate union busters to swarm its delivery stations, warehouses, and fulfillment centers to try to intimidate or threaten workers from joining the Teamsters. Cervantes was paid $75,000 during a previous anti-union campaign, according to union-busting watchdog group LaborLab.
Despite the abuse or explicit attacks such predators wage against working people, thousands of Amazon workers nationwide continue to join the movement to unionize. As momentum builds, workers across Amazon’s national network of 280,000 drivers continue to become Teamsters and demand their worth from the one of the world’s largest, greediest employers.
Read our full press release here: https://teamster.org/2024/11/teamste...phobic-attack/
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Observed by multiple witnesses, including Amazon management, union buster Juan Carlos Cervantes of Government Resources Consultants of America attacked the Amazon employee during the morning of Nov. 26, at the company’s DBK4 facility in Queens. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters are filing unfair labor practice (ULP) charges against Amazon over the assault, as well as formal complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
During the incident, Cervantes verbally threatened the Amazon delivery driver with physical violence at work before loudly calling the Teamster a homophobic slur multiple times as he prepared for work. The driver was able to begin making deliveries as work got underway on Tuesday but was notified by Amazon management later in the day that the e-commerce giant was suspending him pending an investigation into the attack. As of Wednesday afternoon, Amazon told the Teamsters Union the worker remains suspended but would not respond about the union buster.
Between 2022-2023 alone, Amazon spent more than $17.2 million hiring corporate union busters to swarm its delivery stations, warehouses, and fulfillment centers to try to intimidate or threaten workers from joining the Teamsters. Cervantes was paid $75,000 during a previous anti-union campaign, according to union-busting watchdog group LaborLab.
Despite the abuse or explicit attacks such predators wage against working people, thousands of Amazon workers nationwide continue to join the movement to unionize. As momentum builds, workers across Amazon’s national network of 280,000 drivers continue to become Teamsters and demand their worth from the one of the world’s largest, greediest employers.
Read our full press release here: https://teamster.org/2024/11/teamste...phobic-attack/
More...