Last month Amazon revealed its profits had tripled to $9.9bn (about £8.2bn).
At the same time, 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 one month ago. 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”.
The reason?
- Amazon squeezes workers: While tripling profits in Q3 2023, Amazon subjects warehouse workers and drivers to a high-pressure environment that breaks their bodies and ultimately forces them to quit.
- Amazon squeezes communities: While making €50 billion in revenue in 2022, Amazon did not pay any taxes for the fifth consecutive year in its European headquarters of Luxembourg.
- Amazon squeezes the planet: While Amazon celebrated a 0.4% drop in total emissions in 2022, it would still take the company until the year 2378 to reach its stated 2040 target of net zero emissions.
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