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A process moving through the National Labor Relations Board that could have found Amazon a joint employer with its Direct Service Providers (DSPs), the independently-owned companies that deliver parcels for Amazon, appears to have ended with a huge victory for the online retailer.
Rebekah Ramirez, an NLRB administrative law judge, approved an agreement between the NLRB General Counsel and Amazon(NASDAQ: AMZN)that wasfirst revealed in April.
The Teamsters, at that time, voiced strong opposition to the deal.
Its attorneys quickly filed a request to appeal what it called the ALJ’s “defective unilateral settlement” between the NLRB and Amazon.
At issue is a complaint filed in September 2024 by the regional director of the NLRB’s Region 31, a geographic area that includes the Amazon DAX8 facility in Palmdale, California.
The complaint was over Amazon’s actions toward a DSP called Battle Tested Strategies (BTS) that operated out of DAX8.
BTS is believed to be the only DSP where its rank-and-file voted to be represented by a union–the Teamsters–and where the DSP owners recognized the vote.
BTS’ agreement to operate as an Amazon DSP was terminated in June 2023.
Amazon has denied the charge that the cancellation was because of the union recognition.
Amazon said in a statement to FreightWaves that BTS’ contract was “terminated for repeated safety violations, including use of vehicles with faulty brakes and out of service vehicles, as well as failure to pay their insurance provider.” The resulting investigation by the regional director led to the complaint that, as ALJ Ramirez said in her review of the earlier proceedings, “at all material times, Amazon and BTS have been joint employers of BTS’s employees working at the DAX8 facility.” Given that position of joint employer, according to Judge Ramirez’ summary of the case, and because BTS had recognized the Teamsters, “Amazon was required to recognize and bargain with the Union.” Hearings began in September and continued on and off into 2026.
The process had been moving in the Teamsters’ direction.
A late 2025 attempt by Amazon to block the process washalted by the Ninth Federal Circuit.
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