New York – On August 18, 2026, Teamsters released 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 NYC Labor Department over Amazon’s WARN Act violations, requesting the Commissioner of Labor investigate Amazon’s control of its third-party contractors and Delivery Service Partners (DSPs). 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.”
The Teamsters report demonstrates that since 2018, Amazon has closed 35 DSPs in the state, resulting in the loss of over 3,500 jobs. Amazon’s job-killing makes up an outsized percentage of layoffs across New York’s entire transportation and warehousing industry. A full 25 percent of all workers laid off in the industry since 2023 have been Amazon drivers. A majority of Amazon drivers never received the advance notice required by law, and Amazon may owe as much as $11 million in back wages
“Amazon sells itself to communities as a ‘job creator,’ but the revelations in the Teamsters report should dispel that notion completely,” said Tom Gesualdi, President of Teamsters Joint Council 16. “In reality, Amazon has killed more jobs in the logistics industry than any other company in New York. The Teamsters and our allies will not allow Amazon to continue harming its workers or our communities with its illegal actions.”
The Delivery Protection Act, which Teamsters and their allies are campaigning to pass in New York City, would end Amazon’s subcontracting shell game and force the company to directly hire its drivers.
