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They seem to do this every Black Friday and prime day, has it had any impact yet? I barely use Amazon as is so I’m already boycotting most of the year. I do pay money into twitch though so they get my $ from my turbo subscription
Impact? Probably Amazon will replace their workers with robots
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/18/amazon-robot-warehouses-digit-workers
Well they were always going to do that if it resulted in more labour per dollar anyway
I'm from the UK and companies keep trying to make Black Friday a thing over here and every time they fail. It's quite wonderful to see the January announcements that they've learned their lesson and won't be trying that again.
It's a thing online.. Black Friday week still happens, where they try to get rid of the tat that didn't sell to clear space for christmas shopping.
Physical stores have basically given up I think.
I remember ASOS bragging a long while back that their architecture was able to sustain the influx of orders while other websites had to institute a queueing system to let customers in.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Amazon workers have revealed plans to hold strikes and protests on Black Friday in more than 30 countries including the UK.
The day of action, to be held on 24 November, was announced in Manchester at the first Make Amazon Pay summit of trade unionists and political leaders.
The US senator Bernie Sanders was in attendance in Manchester alongside Spain’s second deputy prime minister, Yolanda Diaz, and the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Paul Nowak, encouraging Amazon workers to “join the global fight for their rights”.
A spokesperson for the campaign group Progressive International, one of the organisers of the summit, said this year’s day of action would be even bigger in terms of impact.
Diaz told the summit: “It’s crucial to raise our voices and demand … that large companies respect … the communities where their workers operate; that they pay their fair share; and that they contribute more effectively to the primary challenge facing humanity today, the climate emergency.”
The Make Amazon Pay campaign has been co-organised by UNI Global Union and Progressive International, which includes more than 80 organisations working towards labour, tax, climate, data and racial justice, with more than 400 parliamentarians and tens of thousands of supporters from around the world.
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I agree with making Amazon pay and strikes and all that, but Amazon is so f****** big They can get away with moving Black Friday.
