Amazon and Instacart workers walking off job amid safety concerns over coronavirus 01:50. About two dozen Amazon workers in the company's Staten Island, New York, distribution facility walked off ...

Amazon workers in Staten Island are seeking longer breaks, paid time off for injured employees and an hourly wage of $30, up from a minimum of just more than $18 per hour offered by the company.

The Amazon Labor Union held a rally outside the JFK8 Fulfilmment Center in Staten Island Wednesday evening — in the midst of ...

Staten Island-based Amazon.com Inc distribution center union members celebrate after getting the voting results to unionize on Friday, April 1, 2022, in Brooklyn, New York.

Staten Island's Amazon workers have officially unionized, becoming the first ever Amazon union! Congratulations to @amazonlabor on this historic win. New York is and always will be union strong.

Amazon's JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island -- the retail giant's first and only in New York -- sprawls across 855,000 square feet, an area roughly the size of 15 football fields.

The Staten Island group calls itself the Amazon Labor Union (ALU). It is working with The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a labor-activism group founded by former Amazon worker Chris Smalls.

Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls (left) celebrates with Amazon workers following the April 1, 2022, tally of votes in the union election at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island in New York.

In a spectacular and surprising win, workers at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island voted for a union, 2,654 to 2,131. The union, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) started by a fired Amazon worker ...

Amazon Teamsters at Staten Island’s JFK8 warehouse are joining their brethren’s “historic strike” against the retail giant in the days leading up to Christmas.

On Friday, by a vote of 2,654 to 2,131, or 55 percent to 45 percent, the workers at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse — led by Smalls and a dedicated cadre of other organizers — voted to form ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Employees of Amazon’s main Staten Island, N.Y., facility had been organizing for safer working conditions for more than a year when they decided to form a union last April.