{"id":882683,"date":"2024-11-30T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=882683"},"modified":"2024-11-30T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:58:30","slug":"why-are-amazon-workers-striking-in-20-countries-globally-during-busy-black-friday-and-cyber-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/30\/why-are-amazon-workers-striking-in-20-countries-globally-during-busy-black-friday-and-cyber-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Amazon workers striking in 20+ countries globally during busy Black Friday and Cyber Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon workers in more than 20 countries, including the US, plan to strike during the busy pre-Christmas shopping days between Black Friday and Cyber Monday to &#8220;make Amazon pay,&#8221; strike organizers said Thursday. The &#8220;days of resistance&#8221; aim to &#8220;hold Amazon accountable for [labour] abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy,&#8221; according to organizers UNI Global Union and Progressive International. Countries with striking workers include the US \u2014 where employees will strike in &#8220;major cities&#8221; \u2014 the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, India and Turkey, the organizers said. The striking workers will be supported by various unions, anti-poverty and garment worker rights groups, and others, according to UNI Global Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon workers in more than 20 countries, including the US, plan to strike during the busy pre-Christmas shopping days between Black Friday and Cyber Monday to &#8220;make Amazon pay,&#8221; strike organizers said Thursday. The &#8220;days of resistance&#8221; aim to &#8220;hold Amazon accountable for [labour] abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy,&#8221; according to organizers UNI Global Union and Progressive International. Countries with striking workers include the US \u2014 where employees will strike in &#8220;major cities&#8221; \u2014 the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, India and Turkey, the organizers said. The striking workers will be supported by various unions, anti-poverty and garment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}