Comment / Amazon vs Teamsters – the legal war will shift to new fronts

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Key takeaway: An ALJ-approved deal hands Amazon a major win on joint employer status, but the war over who employs its 390,000 last-mile drivers is far from over.

For the Teamsters, it was supposed to be the case that cracked open Amazon’s last-mile fortress. Instead, it ended with a whimper and roughly $250,000 in back pay, loose change for a company worth over $2.7 trillion.

Background

In mid-May, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge G. Rebekah Ramirez approved ...