Amazon workers on strike at peak of holiday shopping season 02:25. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday morning in an effort ...

Amazon faced a coordinated picket effort as drivers and warehouse workers at multiple locations around the U.S. on Thursday pressed the retail giant to recognize their unions.

Amazon has a $5.6 million distribution center at 161 Lower Westfield Rd. in Holyoke, which opened in 2019 along with 16 locations in Connecticut including a fulfillment center in Windsor.

Jed Josson and others from Teamsters Local 186 were at the Oxnard location Thursday afternoon picketing. Amazon Warehouse employees in Oxnard are not currently unionize and not on strike.

Workers at the JFK8 warehouse in Bloomfield joined picket lines in solidarity with workers in Maspeth, Queens and other locations around the country. It is all part of what the Teamsters union ...