Amazon Prime Day Protests

A series of protests have been planned across the world for Prime Day, an annual 48-hour consumer sale on Amazon’s website. Workers in the US, the UK and Germany have said they are protesting working conditions in the Amazon warehouses which organise and ship millions of products bought online every day. In another protest in New York, protest group La Resistenia are using Prime Day to bring attention to how Amazon Web Services (AWS) are allegedly being used by ICE (US immigration) to run their systems. Amazon rang up total sales of $235bn (£188bn) of online sales last year. CEO Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest man in the world.