Amazon brought in record-breaking sales over Black Friday weekend last year, reportedly selling hundreds of millions of products.
Amazon workers in the UK are staging a strike over four days in November, including Black Friday, as they seek higher wages and safer working conditions. The GMB Union, which represents Amazon workers announced the strike on Monday, demanding that the company “urgently reconsider its priorities,” and saying the planned pay rise for UK employees as “little comfort to the thousands of Amazon workers facing poverty pay, unsafe working conditions and workplace surveillance,” The Guardian reported.
An Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo in a similar statement at the time: “We provide safe and positive working conditions,” and encouraged anyone who doubts the truth of the statement “to come see for themselves...”—whatever that means. Rachel Fagan, a GMB organizer, said in a GMB Union press release that Amazon has not appealed to the needs of its employees, and said the move is necessary to get workers the benefits they need.
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