An Amazon warehouse located in Strasbourg has been blocked since the beginning of the morning.
The day of demonstration on March 7 against the pension reform is an opportunity for all social anger to express themselves. Thus, early in the morning, a collective launched the blocking of a warehouse of the giant Amazon in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin).
The Yellow Vests in action
This Tuesday, actions across France are numerous to protest against the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years old. But if the reform brought by the government of Elisabeth Borne is the main cause of the street movement, it also catalyses the other social problems of the country, from inequalities to the cost of living through working conditions.
This is how around fifty people, mostly yellow vests, began blocking the Amazon warehouse in Strasbourg this morning. It is the collective “On crevera pas au boulot”, created for the occasion, which is in charge.
” We are mobilized against the pension reform. We also want to link the battle over pensions to all the other issues: wage increases, inflation, public services, hospitals, education and precariousness in general. », Explains one of the activists, Isabelle Wendling.
Amazon, the synthesis
But why Amazon in particular? For the collective, the e-commerce giant is the illustration of many of the ills affecting the country. ” Amazon is a figurehead of the companies we are fighting against. She practices tax evasion, she pollutes, she destroys jobs, is violent with her employees sums up another activist, Zoé Mary.
It must be said that the company founded by Jeff Bezos does not generally have a good press with workers, whether in its way of following the slightest movements of its employees, or even simply replacing them with machines. And this even if the supermarket model without Amazon Go cashiers is currently a flop. After the blockade of the warehouse, the activists want to join the demonstration against the pension reform.
Source : Street89, Twitter
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