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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Heather Stewart

‘What do we want? £15!’ Hundreds join Amazon picket line for Black Friday strike

Workers from Germany, Italy, the US and Switzerland join the picket line during a Black Friday strike at Amazon in Coventry.
Workers from Germany, Italy, the US and Switzerland join the picket line during a Black Friday strike at Amazon in Coventry. Photograph: John Robertson/The Guardian

Hundreds of strikers outside Amazon’s Coventry warehouse were joined on Black Friday by trade unionists from Europe and the US as part of a global campaign calling for better working conditions at the internet retailer.

Wearing orange beanie hats branded with the GMB union logo, activists from Germany, Italy and California, on strike at their respective Amazon workplaces, expressed solidarity with the Coventry strikers, who have taken 28 days of industrial action since January.

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