Amazon workers are going on strike again, this time on Black Friday

Time flies, and it is already October. The shopping event "Black Friday" is getting closer and closer. Recently, Amazon officially confirmed the dates for Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday at various sites. Among them, the promotion time for 11 sites including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France is set from November 17 to November 27.

Amazon reportedly achieved record-breaking sales during last year's Black Friday weekend, selling hundreds of millions of products.

Just as sellers were gearing up for a big fight, workers at Amazon warehouses in the UK announced once again that they were going on strike.

According to foreign media reports, Amazon workers in the UK plan to hold a four-day strike in November to seek higher wages and safer working conditions. The GMB union representing Amazon workers asked Amazon to "urgently reconsider priorities", saying that the planned pay increase would not comfort thousands of Amazon employees.

More than 1,000 workers are planning to strike for three days, from November 7 to November 9, and then again on Black Friday (the fourth Friday of November each year, which is November 24 this year), as tensions grow between the company and warehouse workers, who feel they are not being paid enough for the time they put in.

Amazon said it would increase the minimum wage for warehouse workers from 11 pounds ($13.51) an hour to 11.80 pounds ($14.50) and agreed to pay a further 1 pound by the spring. The company said it already provided adequate benefits to its employees and denied that workers were working in poor conditions.

GMB organizer Rachel Fagan said in a press release from the GMB union that Amazon was not catering to employees' needs and that the strike was a necessary action for workers to get the benefits they deserved; with Black Friday approaching, Amazon must reconsider their priorities or risk taking strike action and causing widespread disruption to customers and the public.

It is reported that Amazon workers in the UK also went on strike on Black Friday in 2018 to protest low wages and poor working conditions. An Amazon spokesperson at the time said the company provides safe and positive working conditions and encouraged anyone who doubted the authenticity of the statement to "go and see for yourself."

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