(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – In a historic decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled Amazon illegally refused to recognize the Staten Island-based Amazon Labor Union-International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1 (ALU-IBT 1) and ordered it to begin negotiations with the Teamsters.

“Four years ago, Amazon Workers at JFK8 won an NLRB Election. Now, on this monumental anniversary, they have become the first group ever to force the company to recognize their Union, and they did so as Teamsters,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said. “This fight is far from over but this ruling from the NLRB is an historic victory for Amazon Teamsters nationwide and a testament to ‘Worker Power.’”

Over 5,000 Warehouse Workers at the JFK8 Facility in Staten Island formed their Union on April 1st, 2022.

In June 2024, they officially affiliated with the Teamsters Union, which officially chartered ALU-IBT Local 1.

Over the past four years, NLRB has repeatedly found Amazon has illegally and willfully ignored the Union’s legitimacy while attempting to coerce JFK8 Teamsters into ending their organizing efforts.

“Amazon’s strategy these last few years has been to delay, delay, delay - and the NLRB confirmed it because the law is not on their side,” said Randy Korgan, who serves as Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. “Amazon Teamsters know that this company will try to do anything it can to worm out of its responsibilities. The Teamsters will continue to build ‘Worker Power’ at Amazon and hold the company accountable wherever it violates the law.”

Amazon is also required to post notice of the NLRB’s ruling in a visible location for Workers at the JFK8 Facility informing them of their rights to Unionize.

With this ruling, Amazon has exhausted its options to appeal to the NLRB on the issue of Unionization Teamsters at the facility.

“We are making history at Amazon and we are doing it through undiluted ‘Worker Power,’” said Connor Spence, President of Amazon Labor Union-Teamsters Local 1. “This company has used every resource it has to try and break us over the past four years and it continues to fail because vicious rapacity is no match for collective action.”

The decision came only one day after the Union announced another historic victory that upheld Amazon Teamsters’ right to Strike.

The Teamsters represent more than 1.3 million Members in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.

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