BERLIN — Amazon.com employees in Europe protested warehouse working conditions, some using the slogan “We are not robots,” in a challenge for the world’s biggest online retailer heading into its busiest time of year.
Workers in Germany, Spain and France walked off the job at Amazon fulfillment centers on Black Friday, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year. In Italy and the U.K., workers protested at several facilities, according to Bloomberg Law.
More than 600 German workers at the company’s Bad Hersfeld facility walked out Friday morning. In Spain, workers at Amazon’s Madrid-area San Fernando de Henares facility planned a two-day strike Friday and Saturday. That facility employs 1,800 workers and was last on strike during Amazon Prime Day in May, according to UNI Global Union.
About 500 workers in the U.K. demonstrated at five Amazon warehouses, according to the GMB union.
