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10 Jul 2018

Author:
John Bonazzo, The Observer

Europe: Amazon workers to strike over working conditions & collective bargaining rights; co refutes allegations

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Amazon’s European workforce is [...] taking action during the site’s biggest week of the year...

The strike is calling for “health and decent jobs,” along with benefits for all Amazon employees. They claim their “struggles against the abuses” of Amazon have gone ignored for too long.

Each nation has a particular grievance against Jeff Bezos’ behemoth.

[W]orkers write: "...Only with a joint action at a European level will workers organize in those places where there is no union representation yet.”

”We don’t recognize these allegations as an accurate portrayal of activities in our buildings,” an Amazon spokesperson told Observer...

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