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UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig wrote in Social Europe:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOn this day, Black Friday, three years ago, Amazon warehouse workers and their progressive allies co-ordinated a global protest for the first time in the company\u2019s history, under the banner \u2018Make Amazon Pay<\/a>\u2019. During the pandemic, Amazon\u2014its founder, Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world\u2014had forced workers to be at the warehouses without protective equipment. But on Black Friday they pushed back with\u00a0strikes and actions<\/a> in 15 countries to demand safety and dignity. Today, Amazon workers in Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and the United States are making their demand to Make Amazon Pay even louder, with a new wave of strikes<\/a>. It is a display of the collective power they have built, together with supporters in their workplaces, on the streets and in parliaments.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He went on to argue that Amazon should not receive public contracts as long as it busts unions and treats its workers without respect:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn 2021, UNI Europa, the European service workers\u2019 union federation,\u00a0published research<\/a>\u00a0showing that the total estimated value of AWS contracts with public institutions in Europe amounted to as much as half a billion euro a year from 2019 to 2021.\u00a0That\u2019s \u20ac1.3 billion in public money in just three years.\u00a0The research was based on publicly available data, so the actual figure is most likely higher. Worse still,\u00a0in follow-up research<\/a>\u00a0UNI Europa showed that up to 99 per cent of public contracts going to Amazon were awarded without open competition.\u00a0It is wrong that public authorities are rewarding Amazon\u2014and, by extension, its business model\u2014with lucrative cloud-computing contracts. The company is a prime example of why UNI Europa has\u00a0campaigned<\/a> for public contracts to go only to those with a collective agreement in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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