"Make Amazon Pay" campaign demands better wages and working conditions for Amazon workers around the world.

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Amazon workers in dozens of countries are protesting for better wages and working conditions as part of a campaign dubbed "Make Amazon Pay." The campaign is being coordinated by an international coalition of trade unions, with the support of environmental and civil society groups. In the U.S., UK, India, Japan, Australia, South Africa and across Europe, workers are demanding better wages and conditions as the cost-of-living crisis deepens. Unions in France and Germany are spearheading the latest collective action, with coordinated strikes in 18 major warehouses, intended to disrupt shipments across key European markets. Monika di Silvestre, head of Ver.di's Amazon committee in Germany, said that workers are particularly concerned about the way their productivity is closely monitored by computers, with algorithms determining targets, for example for the number of packages they need to handle per hour. She called on European politicians to strengthen labor rights across the bloc. In the UK, workers associated with GMB union have planned protests outside several warehouses, including Coventry. Any workers who walk out during a shift could lose out on the second half of a £500 bonus that Amazon announced for UK warehouse workers last month. In the U.S., protests and rallies will take place in more than 10 cities and outside an apartment block on 5th Avenue, New York, where Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a condo. Multiple rallies are also planned in India while in Japan, members of a recently created union will protest in front of the company’s national headquarters in Tokyo. In Bangladesh, garment workers in Amazon’s supply chain will march in Dhaka and Chittagong.