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‘Make Amazon Pay’ Black Friday strikes planned in 30 countries including UK
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Amazon workers have revealed plans to hold strikes and protests on Black Friday in more than 30 countries including the UK.
The day of action, to be held on 24 November, was announced in Manchester at the first Make Amazon Pay summit of trade unionists and political leaders.
The US senator Bernie Sanders was in attendance in Manchester alongside Spain’s second deputy prime minister, Yolanda Diaz, and the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Paul Nowak, encouraging Amazon workers to “join the global fight for their rights”.
A spokesperson for the campaign group Progressive International, one of the organisers of the summit, said this year’s day of action would be even bigger in terms of impact.
Diaz told the summit: “It’s crucial to raise our voices and demand … that large companies respect … the communities where their workers operate; that they pay their fair share; and that they contribute more effectively to the primary challenge facing humanity today, the climate emergency.”
The Make Amazon Pay campaign has been co-organised by UNI Global Union and Progressive International, which includes more than 80 organisations working towards labour, tax, climate, data and racial justice, with more than 400 parliamentarians and tens of thousands of supporters from around the world.
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