Amazon Delivery Owner Says He Was Punished for Supporting Union

The owner of an Amazon.com Inc. delivery contractor says the e-commerce giant is looking to sever his contract after his employees became the first Amazon drivers in the US to unionize.

Johnathon Ervin, owner of California-based Battle-Tested Strategies, described in an interview Monday a series of actions by Amazon in the weeks leading up to seven dozen of his employees joining the International Brotherhood of Teamsters that he alleges were retaliation for the organizing effort. The first-of-its-kind union is seen as an important foothold to organize drivers nationwide—showing both the opportunities and challenges the labor movement faces in organizing a ...