Cameron Harrison at People’s World reports from Shepherdsville, Kentucky that another crack in the Amazon Empire has been exposed. This time, in a breakthrough for Workers around the world trying to organize the notoriously Anti-Union monopoly, Amazon CDL Drivers at the SDF9 Warehouse here have become the first company Tractor-Trailer Drivers nationwide to organize with the Teamsters. The Drivers, part of the Amazon Transportation Operations Management (TOM) Team, voted to join Local 89 after a year of clandestine organizing to shield their campaign from the company’s well-documented, multi-million-dollar Union-Busting apparatus. The campaign demonstrates Worker resistance at Amazon is spreading from its warehouses to the very arteries of its Logistics Empire. By organizing the Drivers who move freight between Amazon Facilities, Workers have struck a blow at a critical point in the company’s exploitative supply chain. Across the country, more Organizing Campaigns at Amazon have been launched in North Carolina by Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), an Independent Union organizing warehouses across the State. That Union held elections earlier this year at the RDU1 Facility in Garner, North Carolina, but wasn’t able to secure the victory this time around. Despite the loss, one CAUSE Activist told People’s World the campaign proved Workers are willing to struggle for their rights on the job and are not giving up the fight. 

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