Frustrated workers at Amazon’s largest facility in Staten Island walked out on the job Saturday morning, joining a nationwide strike against the retail giant just days before Christmas, The New York Post’s Anna Young reports. Workers from the JFK8 Fulfillment Center, which employs a staff of about 5,500, joined the picket lines in solidarity with thousands of employees from warehouses across the country, including one other in New York City, the Teamsters Union announced. Demonstrators are demanding higher wages, better benefits and improved working conditions, the author writes.
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