Tony DeLorio was driving south on Interstate-280 late last month when something out of the ordinary caught his eye: Amazon vans, a whole fleet of them, parked out in the open on a lot in a warehouse district off of Cesar Chavez.
After Local 665 did some digging, they found that the property Amazon was using was City of San Francisco property. Use of City land in this manner is illegal. A point of city law regarding wage and labor standards is in place that should have prevented Amazon from using this land. The City was leasing this space to a non-union parking company called United Parking, which was then leasing the space to Amazon.
On March 8, Tony Delorio made a phone call to the Public Utilities Commission and followed up with a blistering March 10, 2022, letter, demanding the PUC immediately cancel the lease. Read it here:
The Public Utilities Commission then fired off a termination notice on March 9 to United Parking, the company leasing to Amazon, informing the company that its last day — and, by extension, Amazon’s — would be May 31.
Read more in the Mission Local article that details this case between Teamsters Local Union 665, Amazon, and the Public Utility Commission.
