[ Amazon warehouse workers have walked off the job on Friday which
is one of the busiest shopping days of the year to demand higher wages
and better working conditions from the online retail giant.]
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AMAZON WORKERS WALK OFF THE JOB ON THE BIGGEST SHOPPING DAY OF THE
YEAR  
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Kara Voght
November 25, 2022
Rolling Stone
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_ Amazon warehouse workers have walked off the job on Friday which is
one of the busiest shopping days of the year to demand higher wages
and better working conditions from the online retail giant. _

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Amazon [[link removed]] warehouse workers
have walked off the job on one of the busiest shopping days of the
year to demand higher wages and better working conditions from the
online retail giant.

The strike was organized under [[link removed]] “Make
Amazon Pay,” an international campaign coordinated among trade
unions, climate justice groups, and labor rights organizations. It
calls upon Amazon to increase worker pay and stop busting warehouse
employees’ efforts to unionize, as well as improve its environmental
impact. Friday’s actions include walkouts, strikes, and forms of
protest from thousands of Amazon warehouse workers across 40 countries
and five continents on Black Friday
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off of the holiday shopping season.

“For workers and consumers, the price of everything is going up,”
the campaign website states [[link removed]]. “And for
everyone, the global temperature is rising and our planet is under
stress. But instead of supporting its workers, communities and the
planet, Amazon is squeezing every last drop it can.” The campaign
calls upon Amazon to pay its share of global income taxes, which it
did not pay in Europe in 2021 and has never paid in the United States
— even as its received many additional tax credits from governments
as it built its network of warehouses.

The focus and tactics of each strike varies by region. Warehouse
workers in France and Germany, for example, walked out in protest of
computerized productivity monitoring and target-setting that places a
high demand on their output. Workers in the United Kingdom are focused
on raising their pay
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light of global inflation that has hit their country particularly
hard. 

In the United States, the day’s actions include a protest outside of
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ apartment building on Fifth Avenue in
Manhattan, as well as demonstrations
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Whole Foods locations, which Amazon acquired five years ago.

Amazon’s treatment of its warehouse workers has been a persistent
concern as the online retailer expanded into a global behemoth of
same- and next-day shipping. Employees have long reported physical
injuries due to the breakneck pace of warehouse work, as well as
mental health complaints from the algorithm-induced pressure on their
output. Recent data
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workplace inspections affirms these concerns, finding that demands on
warehouse workers pose a significant risk to their health and safety.

Efforts to organize Amazon warehouses have been sporadic and largely
failed amid massive pushback from Amazon management. A warehouse in
Staten Island, New York, became the first to unionize
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April. but no other labor drives have succeeded since.

An Amazon spokesperson acknowledged the campaign’s concerns but
pushed back on characterizations that it wasn’t making strides
toward alleviating them, citing its “competitive wages and great
benefits” as well as efforts to make the company greenhouse gas
neutral by 2040 in a statement to Bloomberg News
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