Worker Strike Hits Amazon at Peak Holiday Season

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Worker Strike Hits Amazon at Peak Holiday Season

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says the Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) workers it represents will stage the most significant U.S. labor walkout in the e-commerce company’s history. It comes at the peak of the busy holiday season as the company ships millions of packages. The walkouts will hit large fulfillment centers at the heart of the Amazon delivery system.

Amazon has refused to recognize the union as a representative for any of its workers. Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said, “If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed.” The jury is out about who customers will blame for any slowdowns.

Workers at the New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco, southern California, and Illinois locations will join the labor action, which shows that it is not isolated to a small part of the country. Amazon says that the Teamsters have tried to intimidate workers into joining.

Workers have clearly chosen the busiest period of the year to hit the company. It is too early to tell whether it will have any significant impact. The labor action will include about 10,000 of Amazon’s 1.5 million workers. However, they will hit at the heart of an essential part of the company during the holidays.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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