Italian Amazon Workers Strike and Win. Will Unions Elsewhere Follow Suit?

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Italian Amazon Workers Strike and Win. Will Unions Elsewhere Follow Suit?

Unions in the US and elsewhere must make huge resource investments to build up the working-class strike muscle.

By Laura Montanari & Jonathan Rosenblum , TRUTHOUT
Published August 14, 2025

Amazon may be one of the most powerful corporations in the history of capitalism, but even its executives must bend when confronted with disruptive worker power.

That’s the lesson out of Italy, where Amazon delivery drivers ratified a new agreement in July that improves pay and job rights and will reduce working hours slightly. The agreement, negotiated between three Italian unions and the association of contracted Amazon delivery companies, came in the aftermath of a powerful driver strike on April 18, Good Friday, which shut down the Amazon network throughout the country.

The new terms for drivers augment the Amazon collective bargaining agreement hammered out in 2021 between the company and Italian unions following a national strike of warehouse workers and drivers. That contract secured rights covering health and safety, workload, and working times. It increased pay and bonuses for warehouse workers and drivers, and built on top of the national logistics sector wage agreement that Amazon is signatory to.

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