Guardian report exposes Amazon wage increase as public relations fraud
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 9 2019 20:35
A recent report in The Guardian exposes the fraud of Amazon's October wage hike stunt. It also raises the question: was this all simply intended to stave off a unionization effort that began last summer?
Amazon Strikes on Prime Day
Submitted by BenS6 on Jul 21 2018 09:46
Amazon warehouse workers came out on strike against appalling conditions for three days from July 16th in Madrid. 96% of the workers came out on strike. Many of these are temps. On the second day of the strike, workers were brutally attacked by riot police in an unprovoked attack resulting in several beatings.
Call to all Amazon Workers in Europe. In July …. a European General strike!
Submitted by R Totale on Jul 7 2018 07:24
A call launched by the Spanish Amazon workers to all the workers of Amazon in Europe for a day of strike in the second week July during the Prime Day, because organizing a transnational strike is the only way that Amazon won’t be able to use its logistics network to weaken the effects of the strike. On the website Amazon en Lucha it is possible to find the call translated in several languages.
Two-day strike at biggest Amazon warehouse in Spain
Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Mar 24 2018 16:52
A 48-hour strike in the Amazon warehouse in San Fernando de Henares, near Madrid, concluded successfully, according to unions, with workers bringing the company's biggest logistics centre in the country to a standstill.
Hemel Hempstead Amazon workers' report: 'Power hour' or Workers' Power?
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Feb 4 2018 10:35
With our Amazon workers’ reports we hope to not provide yet another sad victim story of how Amazon turns humans into semi-robots. We leave this to the mainstream media.
Black Friday strikes at Amazon warehouses in Italy and Germany
Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Nov 24 2017 13:27
The CGIL, Italy's biggest trade union confederation, Cisl, Uil and Ugl have called for a strike on Friday at Amazon’s main distribution hub, following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company.
Calling all junglists: a short report from Amazon Hemel Hempstead
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Jan 17 2017 21:58
A good friend and former colleague of ours from west London worked at Amazon in Hemel Hempstead in the run up to Christmas 2016.
Welcome to the jungle: working and struggling in Amazon warehouses
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Dec 20 2015 21:53
Article on structure, working conditions and disputes at Amazon in Germany and Poland - reports and interview with workers in the appendix
Amazon in India: The e-commerce jungle and workers' reality
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 23 2015 10:41
The following article is the first part of a series about workers' conditions and disputes at Amazon and other online-retail companies. If comrades in the UK are up for turning this material into leaflets for distribution amongst Amazon workers here, please drop us a line!
Film on cross-border Amazon workers meeting
Submitted by ye on Nov 1 2015 12:45
We posted a short report and the final statement on the cross-border Amazon workers meeting in mid-September in Poznan. Labournet.tv made a film about this meeting.
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