Amazon workers strike in line with Black Friday “only CEOs were called fortunes”

As Black Friday, a shopping topic, kicked off on 27 (local time), workers from 15 countries working for Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, came forward in solidarity strikes and protests. .

According to Fox News that day, Amazon workers in 15 countries including the United States, Germany, Britain, France and India held strikes and protests demanding better working conditions and higher wages.

Strikes and protests began on this day, starting with Australia, the Philippines in Asia, Bangladesh, India, Germany, Great Britain, France in Europe, the United States and Mexico in the Americas. It was held in Brazil and other places.

UNI Global Union, an international trade union organization for the service and technology industry that led the collective action, said: “We launched strikes and solidarity demonstrations to highlight Amazon’s anti-union activities and issues of worker safety “. At the same time, they urged an increase in salaries for warehouse employees at Amazon and an extension of paid sick leave due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

They shouted the slogan “Amazon pays wages” and insisted that “Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was called out by the Corona 19 outbreak, but Amazon warehouse employees are working at the risk of their own lives.”

The biggest strikes and protests took place in Germany. Verdi, a local union in Germany, said more than 2,500 workers from 7 Amazon warehouses participated in the three-day strike that began on the 26th.

In response, Amazon said it would not affect customer delivery, as a total of 26,000 people, including 10,000 temporary people, handle Black Friday orders at 16 fulfillment centers across Germany.

In a separate statement, Amazon stated in a separate statement: “UNI Global Union’s claim is wrong” and “we are providing employees with safe working conditions and great welfare benefits.”

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