Meanwhile, Amazon says the delivery drivers, which the Teamsters have organized for more than a year, aren't its employees. Under its business model, the drivers work for third-party businesses, called Delivery Service Partners, who drop off millions of packages to customers every day. "F...
independent delivery organizations that help Amazon deliver thousands of packages to customers every day. DSP delivery drivers are employed by individual DSPs (not Amazon). Each DSP is independently responsible for the hiring, performance management, and termination of its employees. DSP employees' comp...
15 to negotiate a contract after hundreds of workers at the Skokie delivery facility organized with Teamsters Local 705 earlier this year, but so far Amazon has maintained the drivers are contractors, not employees, and has refused to even recognize a union. "The way Amazon treats its workers...
Most drivers earn $18-$25* an hour delivering with Amazon Flex. *Actual earnings will depend on your location, any tips you receive, how long it takes you to complete your deliveries, and other factors. What is Amazon Flex? It’s simple: With the Amazon Flex app, you use your own ve...
Amazon delivery drivers who are contractors can file legal claims against the company. However, Amazon employees can only file claims against third-party trucking companies if those companies are independent of Amazon. Non-employees (such as drivers, pedestrians, or cyclists) injured by an Amazon tr...
Amid the icy winter weather, Amazon found a way to maintain their speedy business while optimizing safety for delivery drivers. The company implemented a new training program to combat icy roads for their drivers. It's called the "slip simulator." ...
It’s unclear how Amazon’srecent introduction of AI-powered monitoring cameraswill change this dynamic between the Delivery Service Partners and their drivers. One could imagine that having a camera in the van would make it easy to determine if employees were turning off other monitoring de...
Less than a week before Christmas and the start of Hanukkah, the timely delivery of holiday gifts was thrown into jeopardy as thousands of Amazon workers walked off the job and hit picket lines in an attempt to force the nation's largest e-commerce company to bargain with unionized employees...
"The lack of rest and meal breaks was part of the culture for Amazon delivery drivers," said Seattle driver Henry Abreu in the lawsuit. "It was just the way it was. Amazon assigned us a certain number of packages that we were required to deliver in the time allotted by Amazon and acco...
According to their findings, Amazon workers are twice as likely to be injured on the job as e-commerce workers for Walmart, Amazon's closest retail competitor. The injury rate for Amazon's delivery drivers — who are classified as contractors rather than full company employees — also have ...