Former Amazon.com workers and union organizers were due to visit some of the e-commerce giant’s Quebec sites on Friday as part of a global movement urging the company to stop ‘pinning down’ workers, communities and the planet .
Mostafa Henaway, a former Amazon worker and Immigrant Worker Center union activist, says he and others will approach workers at the YUL2 and DXT6 facilities in Lachine to remind them of their rights and encourage their employer to do better.
The visit, timed for Black Friday — one of the Seattle-based company’s busiest times — aims to push the company to pay fair wages and taxes and better consider its impact on the environment. ‘environment.
Falling wages, record incomes
It’s part of the ‘Make Amazon Pay’ movement, which will see Amazon workers and workers’ rights groups in at least 30 countries, including the US and England, strike or rally to supporting fair wages and action against climate change. Workers in these countries have challenged an alleged wage cut as Amazon rakes in record revenues. The company pays no income tax in Europe and has seen its CO emissions2 increase by 18% last year.
In response, Amazon spokeswoman Kristin Gable said the company knew it wasn’t perfect in any area, but felt that people who looked at Amazon objectively would see that it took on its role and its influence on the world seriously. “We are inventing and investing heavily in all of these areas. We play an important role in the fight against climate change with the climate commitment to be carbon neutral by 2040, continue to offer competitive wages and good benefits, and invent new ways to keep our employees safe and healthy in our business network, to give just a few examples,” she wrote in an emailed statement.
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