Thousands of Amazon workers are staging strikes and a walkout this Black Friday to push the company into paying better wages and enhance its climate policies.
Employees from more than 40 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and India, are taking part in the protest as part of the “Make Amazon Pay” campaign.
“It’s time for the tech giant to cease their awful, unsafe practices immediately, respect the law and negotiate with the workers who want to make their jobs better,” Christy Hoffman, one of the campaign’s organizers, told Bloomberg.
Amazon has been under scrutiny in recent years over its employees’ claims of unfair labor practices and push to unionize at some facilities.