Amazon may be forced to treat all drivers as employees, NY Times says

Hundreds of thousands of drivers who deliver for Amazon do not work directly for the company, rather they are employed by third-party logistics companies, Danielle Kaye of The New York Times reports. Last year, Amazon ended a contract with a delivery company in Palmdale, California after drivers began organizing with the Teamsters Union. Recently, a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, in Los Angeles issued the first formal complaint targeted at the company’s deliver model, arguing in the Palmdale case, Amazon is a joint employer of the drivers and must bargain with the union. Last month, another NLRB regional director issued a preliminary finding that Amazon is a joint employer of drivers in Atlanta seeking to unionize with teamsters and must be held liable for unlawfully discouraging unionization.