Unions representing tens of thousands of Amazon.com Inc. employees are planning walkouts and other action as the year¡¯s busiest shopping season begins this week, in protest at the e-commerce giant¡¯s handling of everything from sick pay and COVID-19 precautions to user privacy.
The giant Verdi trade union in Germany is holding a walkout across seven Amazon facilities, it said in a statement Thursday. It¡¯s part of the Make Amazon Pay campaign, an assemblage of organized labor, human rights organizations, environmentalists and other groups that are demanding changes at the Seattle-based company in a program of protests and online press conferences.
Garment workers in Bangladesh will call for higher pay outside an Amazon supplier facility in Dhaka. In Australia, unions will perform ¡°health and safety¡± inspections of the company¡¯s facilities using their ¡°statutory right of entry,¡± the campaign said.
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