
THE BLACK FRIDAY MOBILISATION STRONGLY EMPHASISES THE IMMEDIATE NEED FOR A TRADE UNION AND POLITICAL BATTLE AGAINST THE AMAZON MODEL.
Last Friday, hundreds of SI Cobas workers, mostly logistics workers from various Italian cities, manned the gates of the Amazon mega-plant in Castel San Giovanni (Piacenza); with them were dozens of students and workers in solidarity.
We chose to join the appeal launched by the international network “Make Amazon Pay” with the aim of giving continuity to the highly successful initiative on the occasion of the general strike of grassroots trade unionism on 11 October, and thus to give voice to the struggles against exploitation and low wages imposed by the Amazon system.
We gathered outside the Amazon gates on the “Black Friday”, which has become the worldwide symbol and apex of a model of unbridled consumerism based on a reduction in retail prices that is the result of both the monstrous increase in the pace and workload of warehouse workers and drivers, and the starvation wages made possible by a system of generalised precariousness of working and contractual conditions. This system was further exacerbated during the pandemic and today a majority of Amazon workers are employed for years on fixed-term or temporary contracts, under the permanent blackmail of non-renewal and therefore unable to organise themselves in a trade union to assert their reasons and interests.
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