Black Friday is right around the corner, and you know what that means: deep discounts on all your favorite products from Amazon, brought to you by squeezing low-wage workers for every ounce of labor that can be extracted from them. The holiday season is a particularly brutal time to be an employee in Amazon warehouses, but this year, Black Friday will look more like a blackout in some Amazon facilities. Warehouse workers in more than 20 countries are planning to carry out strikes, protests, and demonstrations on one of the biggest shopping days of the year in order to draw attention to Amazon’s unfair treatment of workers.
The effort, organized by grassroots collectives operating under the unifying banner of the Make Amazon Pay Coalition, will lead demonstrations across the world on Nov. 26. The protests will highlight the many ways employees say the company cuts corners, mistreats workers, and damages the planet.
