Amazon Delivery Drivers Unionized. Now They Have to Prove They Work for Amazon

That's the point in question:

> The union’s next step is proving that wrong. Amazon, it says, is a joint employer of the drivers, and in full control of the conditions that caused them to organize—low pay, unsafe heat conditions, and extreme performance requirements—despite the fact that it places those responsibilities on the DSP.

At the end of the article, it reads like BTS was already about to be dropped by Amazon before the unionization was announced.

It sounds like it could be a Hail Mary by BTS ownership. Why else would an employer immediately concede to union demands? Especially when they know they’re bound to a strict contract with Amazon on pay?

They might be hoping a court rules that Amazon must adhere to the contract. Otherwise, they’re out of business.

It appears that Amazon has already said that they're going to be dropped, strike or no strike.

It's like the FedEx Ground model. Amazon is paying the contracted service provider (BTS) X amount for the route + Y amount for every stop and package, and fines them for various service failures and issues.

It's on the service provider to then use that income to pay their drivers appropriately themselves.

BTS rolled over because they literally can't do anything from a management perspective regardless if Amazon won't give them any more money to do their job and pay downwards to its employees. Amazon will just simply choose to stop doing business with BTS as a whole and move on from this and screw them all over.

They don't. Kinda. They pay for the service but BTS argues that they are not paid enough to be able to provide higher wages.