(29 Nov 2024)
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++CLIENTS NOTE: STORYLINE WAS UPDATED AT 1138GMT TO INCLUDE A STATEMENT FROM AMAZON INDIA++
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New Delhi, India – 29 November 2024
1. Amazon warehouse worker addressing protesters holding signs reading (English): "Make Amazon Pay"
2. Protesters
3. Amazon workers clapping and holding signs reading (English): "Make Amazon Pay"
4. Protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Hindi): "We are one"
5. Protesters’ signs
6. Sign reading (English): "Safe working conditions should be prime"
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nitesh Das, Amazon India Workers Union:
"We came in the streets because this should be reached to the parliament, this should be reached the media houses, this should be reached to the general public – that when you order something through apps and the things come to you in just one click away, there is reality going on in the background at every step of the packaging, delivering. The workers getting exploited. So, that’s why we are here on the streets.”
8. Protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Hindi): "Long live Amazon workers unity"
9. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Manish Kumar, 25, Amazon warehouse worker:
"If you look at the working conditions there, it is bad. The way of getting the work done there is (that) one has to achieve a lot of targets. Our basic salary is 10,000 (Indian rupees or around $119), which should be at least a minimum of 25,000 ($295). And the environment there is to work under pressure."
10. Writing on a protester’s T-shirt reading (English): "Amazon India Workers Union"
11. Protest, banner in front reading (English): "Make Amazon Pay"
12. Protester holding sign reading (English): "Amazon, don’t make us work like robots"
13. Protesters wearing mask with horns meant to depict Amazon founder Jeff Bezos while chanting, UPSOUND (Hindi): "We are one, long live worker unity"
14. Various of workers chanting, some wearing masks
STORYLINE:
Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages and working conditions as the company prepares for one of the busiest shopping periods of the year.
About 200 warehouse workers and delivery drivers rallied in the capital, New Delhi, under a "Make Amazon Pay" banner.
Some donned masks of Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and joined hands against the Seattle-based company’s practices.
The walkout on Black Friday, which starts one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year, was repeated at Amazon warehouses in other countries as workers called for higher wages, better working conditions, and union rights.
"Our basic salary is 10,000 (Indian rupees or around $119), which should be at least a minimum of 25,000 ($295)," said Manish Kumar, 25, a warehouse worker who joined the New Dehli protest.
"And the environment there is to work under pressure," he added.
Nitesh Das, a union leader, said the workers took to the streets because they want the government to take up their cause.
Amazon, in a statement issued in India, accused the workers of "intentionally misleading and continuing to promote a false narrative."
"Our facilities are industry-leading and provide competitive pay, comfortable working conditions, and specially designed infrastructure to ensure a safe and healthy working environment for all,” the company said.
"We’ve created more than 1.5 million jobs around the world, and counting, and we provide a modern, safe, and engaging workplace whether you work in an office or at one of our operations buildings.”
The union said it would submit a memorandum highlighting its demands to India’s Labor Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
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