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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is launching an ambitious push to unionize all Amazon workers across the U.S. in a move timed to coincide with the company's Prime Day.
In a resolution introduced at the powerful union's national convention on Tuesday, the Teamsters declared that unionizing Amazon workers is a top priority, according to Vice, which first reported the resolution.
'The Teamsters will build the types of worker and community power necessary to take on one of the most powerful corporations in the world and win,' said Randy Korgan, the Teamster's National Amazon Director, in a video address to union delegates.
It follows the critical defeat in April of a union organizing vote at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama -- and the Teamsters believe that a national push is the key to victory, rather than a piecemeal approach at each warehouse.
Teamster's National Amazon Director Randy Korgan speaks to members of Teamsters Local 1932. The Teamsters is making unionizing Amazon workers a top national priority
Labor activists are seen holding signs and marching on a picket line across from a Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square in February
Amazon did not immediately respond to an inquiry from DailyMail.com
