{"id":16887,"date":"2024-12-16T21:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/threat-of-amazon-workers-strike-spreads-during-peak-holiday-season\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T20:39:42","slug":"threat-of-amazon-workers-strike-spreads-during-peak-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/threat-of-amazon-workers-strike-spreads-during-peak-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat of Amazon workers\u2019 strike spreads during peak holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Threats started in New York and spread to Chicago and Atlanta after company failed to meet negotiation deadline<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of workers at Amazon are threatening to strike at the company after giving the company a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/dec\/13\/amazon-new-york-strike\">deadline<\/a> of 15 December to agree to begin negotiating a first contract with the union representing employees.<\/p>\n<p>The strike threats, which started in New York, have now spread to Chicago and Atlanta. They come during Amazon\u2019s peak holiday season and after the company <a href=\"https:\/\/press.aboutamazon.com\/2024\/12\/amazons-record-breaking-black-friday-week-and-cyber-monday-deal-event-was-its-biggest-thanksgiving-holiday-shopping-event-ever\">experienced <\/a>record sales during its 2024 Black Friday and Cyber Monday events<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/16\/amazon-workers-strike-new-york-atlanta-chicago\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/793a6000e0f6fa7fd5b03c7df3b3b2c8b95dbdc5\/0_401_4469_2683\/master\/4469.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=81e99836d7ef32cb2945c9a5f502f71e\" title=\"Threat of Amazon workers\u2019 strike spreads during peak holiday season\" \/>Threats started in New York and spread to Chicago and Atlanta after company failed to meet negotiation deadline<br \/>\nThousands of workers at Amazon are threatening to strike at the company after giving the company a deadline of 15 December to agree to begin negotiating a first contract with the union representing employees.<br \/>\nThe strike threats, which started in New York, have now spread to Chicago and Atlanta. They come during Amazon\u2019s peak holiday season and after the company experienced record sales during its 2024 Black Friday and Cyber Monday events Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threats started in New York and spread to Chicago and Atlanta after company failed to meet negotiation deadline Thousands of workers at Amazon are threatening to strike at the company after giving the company a deadline of 15 December to agree to begin negotiating a first contract with the union representing employees. The strike threats, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/threat-of-amazon-workers-strike-spreads-during-peak-holiday-season\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threat of Amazon workers\u2019 strike spreads during peak holiday season<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}