Amazon.com Inc. said late Monday that it terminated its contract with the company that directly employs delivery drivers whose unionization and tentative contract agreement was announced earlier Monday by the Teamsters.
Dozens of Amazon delivery drivers in Palmdale, Calif., have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and have reached a tentative contract agreement, becoming the first drivers for Amazon to do both, the Teamsters said. Though they deliver only Amazon AMZN packages, and wear vests and drive vans with Amazon’s name on them, the drivers are not employed directly by the tech and retail giant. They are employed by delivery service partners, or DSPs.
Hards did not respond to a question about when Amazon terminated its contract with the delivery service partner, and when the contract expires.