Holiday shoppers get a lump of coal this year.
If you have delayed your Christmas shopping until now, hoping to rely on Amazon for your gift-giving pursuits, you might be in store for bad luck – maybe. At the peak of the holiday season, Amazon workers walked off the job and hit the picket line across several US facilities. This continues the labor-strife trend occurring over the last couple of years amid elevated living costs. Like their predecessors, will the thousands of Amazon workers succeed?
Amazon Workers Delivering Holiday Anxiety
On Dec. 19, Amazon workers went on strike across seven facilities throughout California, Georgia, Illinois, and New York in pursuit of higher wages, enhanced benefits, and safer working conditions. The strike, organized by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was deemed the largest…
