About 10,000 Amazon workers are about to go on strike
Amazon workers in the US are taking part in a 24-hour strike to demand better working conditions and wages from the company. The strike is taking place in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, California and Illinois. This comes months after Amazon merged with the Teamsters union, which represents 1.3 million people across the US and Canada.
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