Amazon faced a coordinated picket effort on Thursday as drivers and warehouse workers at multiple locations around the U.S. pressed the retail giant to recognize their unions.
The campaign launched by the Teamsters union comes during the holiday-shopping rush, though Amazon says it has not affected operations.
The union had said it had organized the “largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history” and workers would strike at seven locations in major delivery hubs: around the cities of New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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