One of the largest unions in the US is expected this week to launch a broad effort to unionize Amazon employees.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents 1.4 million workers in 500 unions nationwide, will vote on Thursday on a landmark resolution to make its highest priority helping Amazon workers achieve a union contract.
The resolution is expected to pass and will create a special division called the Amazon Project to aid workers in organizing. It marks the largest coordinated effort thus far to unionize the company, the second-largest employer in the US.
The Amazon Project is the culmination of years of research the Teamsters have been conducting into organizing the
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