GMB Union plan Black Friday protests at Amazon warehouse in Milton Keynes

    Hundreds of people are expected to demonstrate at Amazon's warehouse in Milton Keynes on Black Friday, which takes place this week.

    GMB, the union for Amazon workers, is staging Black Friday protests across the UK, including in Milton Keynes, in anger at the inhuman conditions people work under at the company's warehouses.

    Hundreds are expected to demonstrate at Amazon Milton Keynes from 6:30am to 11:30am at the Marston Gate Distribution Centre.

    Amazon workers in Italy and Spain will strike for 24 hours on the same day.

    Tim Roache, GMB General Secretary, said: "The conditions our members at Amazon are working under are frankly inhuman. They are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious and being taken away in ambulances."

    "We're standing up and saying enough is enough, these are people making Amazon its money. People with kids, homes, bills to pay - they're not robots."

    "Jeff Bezos is the richest bloke on the planet; he can afford to sort this out. You'd think making the workplace safer so people aren't carted out of the warehouse in an ambulance is in everyone's interest, but Amazon seemingly have no will to get round the table with us as the union representing hundreds of their staff."

    "Working people and the communities Amazon operates in deserve better than this. That's what we're campaigning for."

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