They mean the same thing to any average person who speaks English, but legally, Amazon is trying to clarify that it does not directly employ these drivers, which allows the company to take advantage of a vast network of delivery drivers with limited liability and accountability to the people who perform that labor. The only nuance here is trying to create distance between the company and the drivers by putting the words farther away from each other. Would you update the headline to read ‘drivers delivering for Amazon’?”Īs somebody with formal training in semantics, given that I studied linguistics in college, I can assert that there is no quantifiable semantic difference between a person who is an Amazon delivery driver and a person who is a delivery driver for Amazon, or a driver who delivers for Amazon, or whatever other ordering of those words you can come up with. “It reads that these drivers are ‘Amazon drivers’ and that is inaccurate given they are employed by Battle-Tested Strategies. “I’m writing to ask if you’d be open to updating your headline of the story you just posted,” the spokesperson wrote. After providing comment, which was added to the article, the spokesperson then sent a second email. The drivers who went on strike work for Battle-Tested Strategies, which is a DSP contracted by Amazon to deliver its packages throughout Palmdale, California.Īn Amazon spokesperson emailed Motherboard after the initial publication of the aforementioned article, in response to a request for comment about the strike. The actual delivery drivers, in turn, are employed by the DSP, though they work in Amazon facilities to deliver Amazon packages, and how they work, when, and how much they get paid is largely determined by terms Amazon sets with the DSP. The DSPs are responsible for hiring and training drivers, dispatching routes, and maintaining vehicles, according to statements from Amazon previously provided to Motherboard. Amazon contracts third-party delivery companies, which are known as delivery service partners (DSPs) and are often small businesses, to deliver its packages out of its warehouses.
Important context is needed here to understand how Amazon’s delivery system works. Amazon, however, contests this point.Īs a spokesperson for the company wrote in an email to Motherboard: these drivers are not Amazon drivers, actually, but drivers who deliver for Amazon, which is a very critical factual difference. Delivery drivers who work at an Amazon facility, deliver Amazon packages, and typically drive Amazon-branded trucks, walked out of their Amazon facility. Motherboard covered this story with the headline, “Amazon Delivery Drivers Walk Out in First-Ever Driver Strike.” This makes sense, given that it is what happened.
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