Amazon\u00a0is bumping its average national pay for contracted delivery drivers to roughly $22 an hour, up from $20.50 an hour, the company\u00a0said\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n
The wage increase is part of Amazon\u2019s $2.1 billion investment this year into its delivery service partner program, which are the legions of contracted firms that handle last-mile delivery of packages from the company\u2019s warehouses to shoppers\u2019 doorsteps.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s announcement comes as it faces a renewed unionization effort among its contracted delivery workers.<\/p>\n
Beryl Tomay, Amazon\u2019s vice president of transportation, wrote in a blog post that many DSPs are \u201calready paying well above\u201d $22 an hour. The increased rates will continue to support DSPs \u201cin their efforts to recruit and retain high-performing teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amazon announced the pay bump at the same time that it is hosting an annual, closed-door conference for those delivery contractors, called Ignite Live, in Las Vegas. The company\u00a0made a similar announcement\u00a0at last year\u2019s event. Amazon has said it has added more than 3,500 DSPs to the program since it launched in 2018.<\/p>\n
The Teamsters Union has led several strikes at Amazon delivery facilities in the past year, and it has made organizing Amazon employees a key focus after launching a division dedicated to the online retail giant\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n
The National Labor Relations Board has also been scrutinizing the company\u2019s relationship with its contracted delivery workforce. Since August, the federal labor agency\u00a0has issued\u00a0two determinations\u00a0finding that Amazon should be deemed a \u201cjoint employer\u201d of employees at two subcontracted delivery companies. The NLRB\u2019s determination could compel Amazon to bargain with employees seeking to unionize.<\/p>\n
Amazon has fought to avoid being designated as a joint employer of its contracted delivery drivers, arguing that the workers are employed by third-party firms. Lawmakers and labor groups have disputed the company\u2019s characterization, saying drivers wear Amazon-branded uniforms, drive Amazon-branded vans and have their schedules and performance expectations set by Amazon.<\/p>\n
The company has previously said it disagrees with the NLRB\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Amazon\u00a0is bumping its average national pay for contracted delivery drivers to roughly $22 an hour, up from $20.50 an hour, the company\u00a0said\u00a0Thursday. The wage increase is part of Amazon\u2019s $2.1 billion investment this year into its delivery service partner program, which are the legions of contracted firms that handle last-mile delivery of packages from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}