Amazon’s sweatshop business model is unfair to its workers and a threat to all of us. What happens at Amazon will affect Teamster jobs and standards in every industry.

Building union power and winning a union contract at Amazon is a top priority for our union. It’s also a huge challenge.

Amazon is the world’s fastest growing employer with more than one million workers in the U.S. and climbing. Amazon now delivers more packages than UPS—and the gap is growing rapidly.

Up until last year, Amazon only delivered their own packages that customers bought on their website. Now, they are launching services to deliver third-party packages so that they can compete directly with UPS.

The average Amazon package driver makes around $21/hr. UPS top driver rate in 2025 is over $45/hr. Amazon drivers get no pensions and sub-standard benefits.

Inside workers are paid less than UPS part-timers, and injury rates are 75% higher than at UPS.

We need to help Amazon workers drive up their wages, benefits, and power or we will be dragged down in a race to the bottom.

Amazon threatens more than just UPS Teamsters—Amazon is also driving down standards in the grocery and warehousing industries.

Building the Movement

2024 was a year of change and growth for Teamster organizing at Amazon.

For years, our union has helped Amazon workers organize shop-floor actions, circulate petitions, march on their boss, even walk off the job.

Last year, major groups of Amazon workers became Teamster organizing committees.

This includes workers at the two major Amazon air hubs. KCVG in Northern Kentucky and KSBD in San Bernardino are both organizing with the Teamsters.

Amazon Teamsters have demanded that the company recognize their union, and they legally won bargaining rights in eight locations in New York, Illinois, Atlanta, Southern and Northern California.

These are big steps forward. But the Amazon threat is growing by leaps and bounds every year.

Teamsters at every level of our union need to step up to make 2025 an even bigger year for Amazon organizing.

TDU members helped organize and support the first nationwide strike at Amazon. It won’t be the last.

The alternative is watching the good Teamster jobs and conditions we’ve won over generations come under a growing attack by the world’s biggest and most anti-union employer.

Join the fight. Contact your local union and TDU to find out how you can be involved.

We're In This Together

"I spent 33 years working at UPS. I’m currently working as an Amazon organizer because if we continue down this path, it will affect the whole industry, from UPS to DHL and beyond. We’re all in this together."

David Thornsberry
Local 89, Louisville

Standing in Solidarity

"I'm a rank-and-file feeder driver. When the IBT put out a call to my local to extend picket lines, I answered it and volunteered. We turned around trucks, talked to workers, and showed that UPS Teamsters will stand in solidarity. Amazon workers are just like us; they should have the same benefits, pay, and safety standards we do."

Nicole Halliday
Local 439, Stockton, Calif.