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Amazon workers in five countries are expected to protest working conditions on Prime Day amid calls for better pay and improved working conditions.
Workers in a Minnesota warehouse said last week they will strike for six hours on July 15 for Prime Day, Amazon's busiest shopping event of the year. Now employees across Europe plan to join them.
It follows Amazon raising its ambitions for Prime Day, promising one-day delivery and extending the discounting period to two days through July 15 to July 16 — the first time it has done so.
"By doubling Prime Day's duration and halving the delivery time, the company is testing hundreds of thousands of workers' physical limits as though they were trained triathletes," said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
"This is plain wrong. Operating at these speeds for this duration means Amazon needs to hire more workers, under more sustainable speeds that don't put workers' lives in jeopardy. Instead, we are seeing a callous indifference to worker safety."
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Workers in a Minnesota warehouse said last week they will strike for six hours on July 15 for Prime Day, Amazon's busiest shopping event of the year. Now employees across Europe plan to join them.
It follows Amazon raising its ambitions for Prime Day, promising one-day delivery and extending the discounting period to two days through July 15 to July 16 — the first time it has done so.
"By doubling Prime Day's duration and halving the delivery time, the company is testing hundreds of thousands of workers' physical limits as though they were trained triathletes," said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
"This is plain wrong. Operating at these speeds for this duration means Amazon needs to hire more workers, under more sustainable speeds that don't put workers' lives in jeopardy. Instead, we are seeing a callous indifference to worker safety."
Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe and the US are striking and protesting on Prime Day
Amazon workers in the US, UK, Germany, Spain, and Poland are protesting on Prime Day, Amazon's busiest shopping event of the year.
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