Thousands of workers all over the world have been striking leading up to and on Prime Day, Amazon’s biggest sale, calling for better working conditions, pay and health benefits.
Nearly 1,800 Amazon workers (96% of the workers at the San Fernando warehouse) in Spain went on strike Monday during Prime Day, the company’s biggest sales day of the year
Thousands more Amazon employees in Germany are expected to walk off the job Tuesday, the second day of the sale in six warehouses.
Amazon’s website and mobile app crashed for about 45 minutes, due to a computer glitch – the most widespread to date, costing Amazon millions of dollars
In the US, advocacy groups are planning several consumer rallies outside Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market locations to protest the sale of Nazi, Confederate and white nationalist merchandise through Amazon’s marketplace of third-party sellers.
Amazon is still expected to profit more this year than last year. Let’s hope we can keep spreading the word about the boycott and prove them wrong. Spain’s strike is supposed to last through the 18th, so keep boycotting
elon musk’s months-long very public breakdown reached a fresh peak today when he accused one of the divers in Thailand of being a pedophile in response to criticism of his metal death-tube
the greek democracies used to have this mechanism called ‘ostracism’ where everyone would just get real fed up with one particular rich asshole’s shit, someone would call for an ostracism, and everyone would get together and write the dude’s name on a pottery shard, toss it into a container and then have it be tallied up later to determine a yay-or-nay
there didn’t have to be a specific charge, no crime needed to be committed, you just had be such a tremendously unbearable shithead that everyone in the city decided to just officially exile you for ten years and send you packing
we should seriously consider bringing this back it would solve a lot of problems
