LOS ANGELES − Amazon workers in Southern California represented by the Teamsters union authorized a strike at four warehouses, days after strikes were authorized in New York and Illinois.
The strike authorizations, announced in a Tuesday press release , cover Teamsters workers at warehouses in the City of Industry, San Bernandino, Victorville and Palmdale. The authorizations allow for strikes to take place but does not guarantee they will happen.
Teamsters said that Amazon had failed to meet a Dec. 15 deadline to come to the negotiating table and threatened “large-scale labor actions at a critical time of year.”…