The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one in all America’s most distinguished labor organizations, is predicted to launch a nationwide effort to prepare Amazon staff.

The Teamsters, which have 500 chapters scattered all through the U.S. and Canada and signify some 1.4 million staff, stated in a press release Tuesday that they hope to make unionization on the firm their “highest priority.”

An inside decision associated to the proposed effort, first reported by Motherboard, was distributed internally this week to union chapters all through the nation. The doc was subsequently shared with Gizmodo by an IBT consultant.

Dubbed the “Amazon Project,” the marketing campaign would focus particularly on organizing the corporate’s logistics staff who toil in its many warehouses (or “fulfillment centers,” as Amazon calls them).

Motherboard experiences that the Teamsters are planning “a series of pressure campaigns involving work stoppages, petitions, and other collective action” to compel the tech big to enhance its working circumstances.

We’ve reached out to Amazon for touch upon the Teamsters’ potential union push and can replace as soon as we obtain a response.

Union chapter leaders will vote on the decision Thursday to find out whether or not to pursue the Amazon marketing campaign. The decision is predicted to go, Kara Deniz, the Teamsters’ senior communications coordinator, stated through cellphone.

If enacted, it’ll create a particular division inside the Teamsters, devoted to “specifically aid Amazon workers and defend industry standards that the Teamsters have set in the logistics industry over the past 100 years,” the group stated.

The marketing campaign is the most recent instance of efforts by organized labor to fight Amazon’s hellish working circumstances. It follows a failed effort to unionize a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, earlier this yr.

The tech big has been extensively condemned for its labor practices, which reportedly embrace a grueling hourly tempo, relentless surveillance, and a common, callous angle in direction of the well-being of its staff amidst the pandemic.

“The IBT Convention recognizes the existential threat of Amazon to our members and commits all levels of the union to unite with core platforms of member engagement, worker and community engagement, antitrust enforcement and policy reform, and global solidarity,” reads the IBT decision.