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105 workers lose their jobs after Amazon nixes contract

A year after they unionized with the Teamsters

BY HARPER FREEMAN
Posted 9/12/25

Amazon cancelled its contract with a delivery service partner that employed 105 drivers at a distribution center in Maspeth, Queens last month, effectively firing the workers who unionized with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters last year. 

At a Monday morning rally to protest the cuts, workers said that they were told their jobs had been eliminated at the end of a long, rainy shift on Aug. 20. 

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