UNI has just released a new report that reveals Amazon received over a billion in taxpayer euros, pounds, Swiss francs and Danish crowns through public contracts in the last year. While the corporation is at the centre of union-busting, tax-dodging and market-fixing scandals, it is being allowed to carve itself out a too-big-to-fail role in the provision of core services.
Last month, it also sent a letter calling on the EU Commission to investigate fresh reports that Amazon was using internal data to replicate products. When Amazon cuts other employers out of the market through dodgy practices and expands its conflictual labour model, it is also an attack on workers.
Across the continent, workers have been taking collective action to push back against Amazon’s abuses. The Make Amazon Pay alliance has laid the foundations for people’s grievances to be relayed strongly in places of power. Black Friday is coming up on 26 November and will mark another important day in our work.
