Amazon Is Busting Democracy, Not Just Unions
GENEVA – Black Friday has become more than a shopping spree. Relabeled Make Amazon Pay Day by labor advocates, it increasingly marks an annual season of resistance. As millions of…
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Piyush Goyal’s Outburst Regarding Amazon and Flipkart
On August 21, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal launched a scathing attack on the e-commerce giant Amazon’s Indian operations. He accused it of predatory pricing, violating regulations on foreign investment,…
Amazon Warehouse Workers Demand Urgent Measures to Combat Heatwaves
New Delhi, India – In response to escalating heatwaves, the Amazon India Workers Association (AIWA) has called on the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the National Disaster Management Authority…
The Billion Dollar Deal that Made Google and Amazon Partners in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
“We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for…
Amazon Workers Plan Global Black Friday Strike Demanding Better Wages And Tax Accountability
Amazon employees worldwide are planning to strike on one of the busiest shopping days of the year The strikes are set to take place at factories, warehouses, data centers, corporate offices…
Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods
Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of…
Amazon’s Drive Into Africa
Since 2004, Amazon has been building a foothold on the African continent. In Cape Town, it already employs thousands in a global call centre and a range of data hubs. …
Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
In June 2018, the Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce (JACAFRE) issued a statement on Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart. It argued that it undermines India’s economic and digital…
Recent Amazon Revelations: What do they tell us about the ongoing farm protests?
Amid the continuing farm protests, with the farmers completing almost three months camping at the borders of Delhi, the international news agency Reuters published a report based on multiple internal…
Amazon’s conflict with Indian retailers
Amazon is in conflict with Indian retailers. A leading group of Indian retailers on Wednesday urged the government to ban the local operations of Amazon.com Inc, after Reuters reported the…
Why Amazon Is Fighting So Hard to Stop Warehouse Workers From Unionizing
Thousands of warehouse workers at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, Alabama, are at the center of a potentially game-changing union vote taking place right now. On February 8, the warehouse…
Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups
Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental…
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