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(WFXR) - Amazons workers crossed 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labour national calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.
This is the 5th twelvemonth UNI Global Union has spearheaded the "Make Amazon Pay" question with the purpose to clasp Amazon accountable for "labor abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy."
“Bezos’s institution has spent untold millions to halt workers from organizing, but the strikes and protests happening astir the satellite amusement that workers’ tendency for justness – for national practice – can’t beryllium stopped," Christy Hoffman, General Secretary of UNI Global Union, said. "We basal agreed successful demanding that Amazon dainty its workers fairly, respect cardinal rights, and halt undermining the systems meant to support america all.
Amazon spokesperson Eileen Hards said the radical is misleading and promotes a mendacious narrative.
“The information is astatine Amazon we supply large pay, large benefits, and large opportunities—all from time one. We’ve created much than 1.5 cardinal jobs astir the world, and counting, and we supply a modern, safe, and engaging workplace whether you enactment successful an bureau oregon astatine 1 of our operations buildings," Hards said.
According to UNI, demonstrations are expected successful large cities successful the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Brazil.
