AMAZON shareholders must intervene over the “shocking” treatment of the company’s supply chain workers, Unite demanded today.
To coincide with the delivery giant’s shareholders’ meeting Wednesday, activists will protest outside Amazon’s Fashion Studio in London’s East End to highlight the corporation’s poor treatment of people and its use of anti-union tactics around the world.
Examples include underpaid workers in Cambodia being tricked into signing resignation letters during the Covid-19 pandemic and a factory in Bangladesh closed in a union-busting move.
Strike Map co-founder HENRY FOWLER discusses the significance of today’s joint union letter to video game giant Rockstar, demanding trade union recognition for its workers. Their conversation highlights how our movement can harness its collective power to rebuild union power across the private sector
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR



