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Deliveroo riders to strike demanding ‘fair pay’ in latest hammer blow to company

April 7, 2021

Deliveroo riders across the UK are due to strike over pay and working conditions in a move which “should give pause to any corporation that thinks precarious workers can be…

Amazon is being sued by New York’s attorney general who argued its extreme profit margins “came at the expense of the lives, health and safety of its frontline workers”.

Amazon workers on strike across Germany

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Amazon German Germany Strike Trade Union Verdi workers

December 22, 2020

Ava Szajna-Hopgood

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Amazon employees across German have downed tools in protest against wages and staff treatment. A spokeswoman for the Verdi trade union told The Local that 500 workers were expected to…

Amazon is facing protests and calls for a boycott internationally from campaign groups as it launches its Prime Day 2020 shopping event.

Amazon faces calls for boycott as Prime Day strikes break out in Germany

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Amazon BIRA British Independent Retailers Association Ethical Retail Prime Day Strike Verdi

October 13, 2020

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Amazon is facing protests and calls for a boycott internationally from campaign groups as it launches its Prime Day 2020 shopping event. Campaign group Ethical Consumer has called on UK…

Amazon has been accused of spying on dozens of its employees’ private and public social media groups to keep tabs on who plans to strike.

Amazon accused of spying on employees by monitoring dozens of closed social media groups

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Amazon Amazon Flex Drivers Facebook Reddit Strike

September 2, 2020

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Amazon has been accused of spying on dozens of its employees’ private and public social media groups to keep tabs on who plans to strike. Amazon’s corporate employees are reportedly…

Amazon is building a new 1.75 million sq ft distribution centre in Nottinghamshire creating more than 1000 jobs.

Amazon staff to strike “until the building gets sanitized” after another employee contracts virus

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Amazon COVID 19 New York Staten Island Strike

March 30, 2020

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Amazon staff at its key warehouse in New York are planning to strike today in a bid to force the retailer to deep clean the site and provide extra protection…

Amazon warehouse workers strike as staff COVID-19 cases rise

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Amazon CFDT France Strike Warehouse workers

March 19, 2020

Ben Stevens

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Amazon has confirmed the first COVID-19 infection in its US delivery network as its warehouse staff in France strike amid fears of contagion. The retailer’s delivery station in Queens, New…

Amazon workers in their thousands across the UK, France, Germany and Spain staged strikes and protest against working conditions in its warehouses this Black Friday.

Thousands of protesters picketed Amazon over working conditions on Black Friday

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Amazon GMB protesters Protests Strike

December 2, 2019

Ben Stevens

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Amazon workers in their thousands across the UK, France, Germany and Spain staged strikes and protest against working conditions in its warehouses this Black Friday. On the busiest shopping day…

Royal Mail has successfully blocked workers from lawfully holding a strike over the Christmas shopping period which posed a “major threat to UK retail”.

Royal Mail union “extremely angry and bitterly disappointed” as strike blocked by High Court

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communication workers union CWU High Court Injunction Royal Mail Strike

November 14, 2019

Ben Stevens

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Royal Mail has successfully blocked workers from lawfully holding a strike over the Christmas shopping period which posed a “major threat to UK retail”. The High Court ruled yesterday that…

Walmart Chile will resume talks with workers after widespread strikes over robot push

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Automation Chile Retail Robot Strike union Walmart workers

July 16, 2019

Ava Szajna-Hopgood

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Walmart Chile on Monday said it would resume talks with a union of 17,000 workers who walked off their jobs last week in protest over the retailer’s push to automate…

Amazon Robotics is funding a new AI-powered app which could prevent warehouse workers from getting injured.

Amazon to retrain 100,000 employees

Companies Ecommerce News

2025 Amazon Delivery Minnesota Prime Day Retail Shakopee staff Strike upskilling upskilling 2025 workers

July 12, 2019

Ava Szajna-Hopgood

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In one of the biggest corporate re-training initiatives to date, Amazon has announced it will be up-skilling one third of its US workforce. The ecommerce giant this week pledged to…

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Deliveroo riders to strike demanding ‘fair pay’ in latest hammer blow to company

Amazon workers on strike across Germany

Amazon faces calls for boycott as Prime Day strikes break out in Germany

Amazon staff to strike “until the building gets sanitized” after another employee contracts virus

Amazon warehouse workers strike as staff COVID-19 cases rise

Thousands of protesters picketed Amazon over working conditions on Black Friday

Royal Mail union “extremely angry and bitterly disappointed” as strike blocked by High Court

Walmart Chile will resume talks with workers after widespread strikes over robot push

Amazon to retrain 100,000 employees

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