Amazon workers across the world have gone on strike for Black Friday, according to the labor advocacy group UNI Global Union.
The protests, dubbed “Make Amazon Pay,” are scheduled to last until December 2. Strikes are happening everywhere, from the US to Australia and Nepal.
There are also demonstrations happening in more than 20 countries over “labor abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy.”
The demonstrators are petitioning the company, which is worth around $2.2 trillion, for increased wages, better working conditions and the permission to form unions. Amazon doesn’t particularly care for unions.
This includes thousands of workers in Germany, across several cities, and hundreds in New Delhi. Employees from India’s capital city are protesting after the company allegedly mistreated workers during a massive heat wave earlier this year, in which people reportedly began fainting due to heat stroke.
However, Amazon sent a statement after that saying that it complies with Indian law and that there’s “nothing more important than the safety and well-being of the workers.”
