Activists rallied in front of Bezos' Manhattan penthouse and walked out of St. Louis warehouse to protest working conditions.
"On Black Friday, in what has already been named #MakeAmazonPay day, unions, civil society and progressive elected officials will stand shoulder to shoulder in a massive global day of action to denounce Amazon's despicable multimillion dollar campaigns to kill worker-lead union efforts," Christy Hoffman, general secretary of UNI Global Union, a group spearheading the protests, said in a statement.
Monika di Silvestre, an official with Ver.di, a German labor group helping to organize the #MakeAmazonPay campaign, toldthat workers are particularly concerned with Amazon's use of computers to monitor their productivity. "The workers are under a lot of pressure with these algorithms," she said."It doesn't differentiate between workers, whether they are old or have limited mobility. Workers stay awake at night thinking only of their productivity stats.", according to the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of unions.
"Amazon employed one-third of all warehouse workers in the U.S., but it was responsible for nearly one-half of all injuries in the warehouse industry," according to the report by the SOC. Amazon has previously defended its safety record and denied that injury rates are higher at the company's warehouses.
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