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More than 100 protesters gathered in front of Jeff Bezos’ Washington mansion and raised a guillotine at the entrance to protest the wages of Amazon workers.
The protest comes a day after Forbes revealed that Bezos’ net worth exceeded $ 200 billion, making him the richest person in history.
Since January, Bezos’s fortune has risen by nearly $ 85 billion, following an increase in Amazon’s profits in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a video posted to Twitter by the conservative website Washington Examiner, a former Amazon warehouse worker, Christian Smalls, a vocal critic for Amazon, urges the company to double the minimum wage from $ 15 an hour to $ 30 an hour. . , after the enrichment of Bezos.
Protesters gathered outside @Jeff BezosThe DC house has built a guillotine. pic.twitter.com/pDFcTg81K9
– Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 27, 2020
The event was organized by the Essential Workers Congress, an association created by Smalls.
“Give us a good reason why we don’t deserve a $ 30 (hourly) minimum wage, while this man makes $ 4,000 a second,” protested Smals, who was fired from Amazon’s Staten warehouse. Island, after calling for better safety standards during the covid-19 pandemic.
Smalls accuses him of being fired in retaliation for a strike after an employee of the giant tested positive for COVID-19, and Amazon denied it.
After his dismissal, he multiplied his protests against Amazon and Bezos.
On August 10, he held a protest in front of the building where Bezos’s apartment is located in New York.
Some Amazon employees expressed dissatisfaction with working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a real financial boom for the giant.
Amazon reported revenue of $ 88.9 billion in the second quarter of 2020, a record company.
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