Amazon warehouse workers in Europe protest on Black Friday, calling working conditions 'inhuman'

Amazon warehouse workers in Europe protest on Black Friday, calling working conditions 'inhuman'

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/23/amazon-warehouse-workers-protest-working-conditions-black-friday.html

On the biggest shopping day of the year, U.K.-based trade union GMB is organizing a protest against Amazon for what it calls "inhuman" conditions for warehouse workers.

Amazon has been under a microscope recently as it gets ready to bring 25,000 jobs to each of two new "headquarters" locations in New York and Arlington, Virginia. Since the announcement earlier this month, politicians and residents in those areas have questioned the benefit Amazon will bring to their cities as the influx of new workers will likely cause a strain on infrastructure and spike housing prices.