This Black Friday, Amazon employees across Europe are protesting ‘inhuman’ working conditions - The Washington Post
This Black Friday, Amazon employees across Europe are protesting ‘inhuman’ working conditions - The Washington Post: “The conditions our members at Amazon are working under are frankly inhuman,” said Tim Roache, general secretary of GMB, in a statement on the organization’s website. “They are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious and being taken away in ambulances.”
Earlier this year, the U.K.-based group said a Freedom of Information request aimed at first-responders showed that ambulances had responded to calls for help at Amazon facilities roughly 600 times over the past three years.
“Our European Fulfillment Network is fully operational," Amazon said in a statement to The Washington Post. "And we continue to focus on delivering for our customers and reports to the contrary are simply wrong.” (Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Post.)
More than 600 workers have gone on strike in Germany, where workers earn a starting salary of about $12 an hour, according to Reuters. In Spain, one employee told the Associated Press that the walkout was deliberately timed for “one of the days that Amazon has most sales.”
Earlier this year, the U.K.-based group said a Freedom of Information request aimed at first-responders showed that ambulances had responded to calls for help at Amazon facilities roughly 600 times over the past three years.
“Our European Fulfillment Network is fully operational," Amazon said in a statement to The Washington Post. "And we continue to focus on delivering for our customers and reports to the contrary are simply wrong.” (Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Post.)
More than 600 workers have gone on strike in Germany, where workers earn a starting salary of about $12 an hour, according to Reuters. In Spain, one employee told the Associated Press that the walkout was deliberately timed for “one of the days that Amazon has most sales.”