07:10 AM EST, 12/18/2024 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Amazon's ( AMZN ) response in the fifth and sixth paragraphs.)

Amazon.com's ( AMZN ) drivers at its DIL7 delivery station in Skokie, Illinois, have voted "overwhelmingly" to call a strike, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters labor union said Monday.

The drivers are demanding a union contract that hikes their wages and benefits and enhances workplace safety, the union added.

Teamsters said it gave the e-commerce giant a deadline of Dec. 15 to bargain a contract.

"The way Amazon ( AMZN ) treats its workers is un-American," Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien was quoted as saying.

"For more than a year now, the Teamsters have continued to intentionally mislead the public - claiming that they represent 'thousands of Amazon ( AMZN ) employees and drivers'. They don't, and this is another attempt to push a false narrative about the independent small businesses who deliver on our behalf," Amazon ( AMZN ) spokesperson Eileen Hards told MT Newswires in an email Tuesday.

Hards also said that the union has "actively threatened, intimidated, and attempted to coerce Amazon ( AMZN ) employees and third-party drivers to join them, which is illegal and is the subject of multiple pending unfair labor practice charges" against the Teamsters.