Amazon’s business, and Jeff Bezos’s wealth, expanded at a dizzying pace over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic; meanwhile, Amazon workers continue to burn out from the relentless pace of work and are struggling to keep up with the cost of living. As the cost-of-living crisis deepens around the globe, workers across industries in the UK—from healthcare and railway workers to civil servants and university lecturers—have been resorting to industrial strike action to secure the increased pay they desperately need. Now, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Coventry have joined the wave of strikes and have made history as the first group of workers to strike at Amazon in the UK. In the latest installment of our Workers of the World series, Ross Domoney reports from the Amazon picket line in Coventry. This video is part of a special Workers of the World series on the cost of living crisis in Europe.
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Biggest scammers are union bosses. More worse than Amazon
I love it.People power.We need this kind of coming together to take on the 1% in all industries.
I hope they get absolutely everything they are asking for !!!!!
Amazon is a disgusting slave labour shite hole of a Company. I got OUT!
I hate the fact that Stuart isn't allowed a break. He's been making tea and tea only for the dehydrated protesters.
On a serious note, what are the rules regarding protesting now? I was reading recently that it's now being criminalised, which made me very sad.
Viv uk down rishi
Send Bezos to the moon!
hope they get their rights ✊ï¸
This is why they want mass migration….they will work for this
Amazon's target system is copied off the slave cotton pickers in mid 1800's. It's a disgrace. I wish US companies would fO from the UK
<£12 per hour for nights…..work like a dog. Under stress to hit targets. Temp contracts……SLAVE LABOUR
Everyone is POOR what part is society unable to get it in there heads. Reset
Whys everyone moaning.
Time to stop cleaning the rich man’s house, office, chauffeur his car, mend his swimming pool and wiping his bottom, leave him in the gutter when he needs an ambulance. Barb
Well done amazing, don’t give up til you get what you deserve. Barb
These people are going about things the wrong way
This inspiring video shows the power of unity and collective action to fight for fair pay and better working conditions.
Thanks, @life-is-here
Great step forward
Stick together to beat Amazon working conditions
Make Amazon treat it's workers with respect!!!
Three months before you get one penny more Damazon will raise their prices beyond the cost of a raise. So everyone else will raise their prices so that by the time you get your raise it will still get you less than it does now.
We get better pay so we can now pay union dues. This is the same shit they pulled with the big 3 here in Detroit. NOW LOOK AT DETROIT! It cost way more in the end and the only ones benefiting is the union, not the slave ppl. Wake up it's all smoke and mirrors. Union sucks!
Get in the FKN street or get in the FKN cage THERE ARE THINGS TO REALIZE
Those people will never figure out how important is bigger yacht…. but yacht owner should be aware how slippery it can be especially on raging Sea….
ALSO: Let's not forget the men and women in France right now,
FIGHTING THE SAME KIND OF CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION.
My ex-husband was a ILA longshoreman. He scabbed(not during a strike)for his dad's gang before he got in the union. He made it into the ILA in1992 the contract guaranteed him $19 an hour minimum $1 per hour raise each year. Any work after 6pm was overtime, rain was overtime, after 6pm in rain was triple time. Holiday, after 6pm and raining was bank. He was guaranteed these wages, was protected by the union and for a dangerous job it was necessary to have union representation. I was working for DHL customer service in 2006 and it was a Teamsters union job. I wish I'd stayed in the union but I didn't have the money to pay union dues and had to leave DHL when my health issues returned.I was dumb. I'd been on corporate disability, had 2 back surgeries and then returned to the workforce. Unfortunately my disability was preexisting.
I live in a right to work state where unions don't have much presence or power. I would support a general strike to fight for more protections for labor organizing in the US and an increase in the federal minimum wage. Here in Idaho minimum wage is $7.25hr. Tipped work is $3.35hr. You can't afford to live with those wages.
Solidarity forever
'Scuse me, when did this take place? Is it still going on?
JEFF wants to be a trillionaire, he don't want to pay his useful idiot anything more……..
Time to wake up