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Amazon Leads State in Killing Logistics Jobs, Teamsters File Complaint with New York Department of Labor
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Teamsters were joined by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), the Action Lab, and the Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN) in releasing a report exposing Amazon as the leading violator of the New York State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (NY WARN) Act.
The union simultaneously filed a complaint with the New York Department of Labor over Amazon's WARN Act violations, demanding that the Office of the Commissioner of Labor investigate Amazon's control of its third-party contractors, or Delivery Service Partners (DSPs), and the company's failure to follow the law. Amazon uses DSPs as shell corporations to shield itself from the legal responsibility the company owes to its workforce.
"This is yet another reason why Amazon is a parasitic white-collar crime syndicate," said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. "Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and the rest of the crooks who run this company can't find a labor law that they don't want to violate, but the Teamsters have bad news for Amazon: the law has a way of catching up with you."
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