“Give me one good reason why we don’t deserve a minimum wage of $ 30 when this man makes $ 4,000 per second,” they said.
Courtesy | It is a form of protest to increase the minimum wage at Amazon.
In the city of Washington, in the United States, protesters placed a guillotine in front of the house of Jeff Bezos, owner and founder of Amazon, a few days after his fortune exceeded 200,000 million dollars.
According to the Washington Examiner, about 100 people participated in the protest demanding that the minimum wage for the company’s workers be doubled, which is now $ 15 an hour.
“Give me one good reason why we don’t deserve a $ 30 minimum wage when this man makes $ 4,000 per second,” the newspaper quotes Chris Smalls, a former Amazon employee and leader of the protest.
Smalls said he was fired shortly after he protested in late March against working conditions “long hours without adequate pay” during the onset of the pandemic and that his colleagues worked despite being infected.
This is just the beginning. We will go to each and every one of the addresses you have in the country, “Smalls promised as he went to the billionaire’s house.
The guillotine is accompanied by a banner with the message: “Support for our poor communities and not for our rich people.”
It’s not the first time
This is not the first time that Bezos has been criticized for the harsh working conditions at his company, which this year has grown enormously as a result of the increase in online shopping during the pandemic.
In 2018, US Senator Bernie Sanders denounced that the businessman “makes more money in ten seconds than an average Amazon employee in a year.”
That same year, a report came to light stating that workers in a company warehouse in the UK had to urinate in bottles due to fear of being fired if they interrupted their workday.
Protesters build a guillotine outside of Jeff Bezos’s house. Yesterday the Amazon billionaire was reported to become the first man worth $200 billion. pic.twitter.com/tY1wb0F1uj
— Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore) August 27, 2020
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