On Thursday morning Eastern Time, just days before the key moment of the holiday season in the USA, thousands of Amazon employees are set to strike.

This strike will considerably impact Amazon's Operation, as this is the busiest season for this e-commerce giant, and it is the time when completing Orders is most crucial, while the strike of thousands of workers may lead to challenges in delivery.

Thousands of Amazon workers will strike.

On Thursday, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that thousands of workers from factories in New York City, Skokie, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Southern California will join the strike to demand Amazon sign contracts, increase worker wages, and improve working conditions.

This union represents approximately 0.01 million workers across 10 Amazon factories in the USA. The union stated that workers from seven of the factories will begin their strike on Thursday.

In a statement on Wednesday, the truck driver union expressed that Amazon has not engaged in contract negotiations, leading to the decision for a large-scale strike. In addition to the mentioned factories, local unions are also organizing collective protests at hundreds of Amazon Logistics centers nationwide.

Currently, the union has set a deadline for Amazon, demanding that negotiations begin by this Sunday.

However, observers indicate that Amazon is unlikely to sit at the negotiating table to bargain with the union, as Amazon may believe this would open the door for the union to take more action.

"Amazon has clearly developed a strategy to ignore workers' collective organizing and bargaining rights," said Benjamin Sachs, a professor of labor and industry at Harvard Law School.

In recent years, Amazon workers in Spain, Germany, and other regions have gone on strike over issues related to wages and working conditions.

As the second largest private employer globally, after Walmart, Amazon has long been a target of union criticism.

Some workers indicate that Amazon's emphasis on increasing delivery speed and efficiency may lead to worker injuries, while Amazon states that its wage levels are industry-leading and that it has regularly introduced automation processes to reduce the strain of repetitive work on workers.

Amazon adopts a "disregard" attitude towards the union.

Although Amazon has stated that it believes workers have the right to organize, it prefers to establish direct relationships with workers and questions the existence of unions.

For example, in 2022, Amazon employees in Staten Island, New York, voted to form a union, marking the first successful union organization at Amazon in the USA.

However, Amazon raised objections to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) at that time, accusing the union of its own constitutionality. In addition, the union also accused that there are issues of bias against the company within its leadership.

Amazon also stated that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters "attempted to coerce" workers into illegally joining the union.

Jake Rosenfeld, a sociology professor researching unions at the University of Washington in St. Louis, stated that Amazon is unlikely to sit down at the negotiating table with the Teamsters (at least at the beginning) because it faces virtually no legal pressure to do so.

He pointed out that in the 2022 Staten Island workers' strike, Amazon was not noticeably punished for ignoring the workers' demands.

Rosenfeld stated, "This is a very successful strategy; the workers are still continuing to work, but they still do not have a (better) contract."