7/2/2023 0 Comments Amazon strike![]() ![]() In response to news of Make Amazon Pay’s day of action, Kelly Nantel, director of national media relations at Amazon, told Motherboard, “These groups represent a variety of interests, and while we’re not perfect in any area, if you objectively look at what Amazon is doing in each one of these areas you’ll see that we take our role and our impact very seriously. On Black Friday 26 November 2021, around the world, workers and activists will rise up in strikes, protests and actions to Make Amazon Pay.” “At every link in this chain of abuse, we are fighting back to Make Amazon Pay. “Amazon may be everywhere, but we are too,” he continued. “From natural resource extraction, to manufacturing from shipping and storing products around the world to delivering them to consumers from controlling untold amounts of data and management to influencing our governments: Amazon takes workers, people and the planet for a ride,” said Casper Gelderblom, Make Amazon Pay coordinator at the Progressive International. ![]() ![]() The #MakeAmazonPay coalition is led by UNI Global Union, a global union federation, which is affiliated with 150 unions that represent 20 million workers worldwide, and Progressive International, an international organization uniting left-wing activist groups. “On global action days like Black Friday, we are seeing how the movement pushing to change the rules of our economy and challenge corporate power is growing bolder and stronger. “The workers, advocates, and elected officials coming together to #MakeAmazonPay have captured the world’s imagination and are changing the way the public perceives Amazon,” Christy Hoffman, general secretary of UNI Global Union, said. In addition to the countries listed above, Black Friday actions will take place in Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Austria, Luxembourg, Spain, Ireland, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia. Between Black Friday and Christmas, warehouse worker injuries spike, according to a 2019 report by the Reveal Center for Investigative Reporting. But for Amazon’s warehouse workers and delivery drivers, it means increased quotas, longer workdays, and a higher risk of injury. “The global day of action will bring together activists from different struggles - labor, environment, tax, data, privacy, anti-monopoly - as trade unionists, civil society activists and environmentalists hold joint actions.”īlack Friday and Cyber Monday mark Amazon’s biggest sales events of the year. “This year’s actions are set to be much larger with strikes and protests planned in multiple cities in at least 20 countries across every inhabited continent on earth,” a press release for the global event said. Since then, the coalition has swelled to more than 70 unions, grassroots organizations, tax watchdogs, and environmentalist groups. ![]() The Make Amazon Pay coalition launched last year with a day of protests on Black Friday, when it unveiled a set of common demands from 50 social justice organizations, including Progressive International, the Athena Coalition, GreenPeace, Our Revolution, Oxfam, and the Sunrise Movement. The actions across the world on November 26 will highlight the scale of Amazon’s role in the global economy.ĭo you work for Amazon and have a tip to share with us? Please get in touch with the reporter Lauren, via email or on Signal 20. In the United States, the Athena Coalition will be holding digital and in-person #MakeAmazonPay actions targeting Whole Foods and Amazon, a town hall about the future of worker organizing in California, and a worker panel in Illinois on supply chain disruptions. ![]()
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