Amazon is one of the most powerful corporations in history.
It is remaking how the economy works in the 21st century squeezing every last drop it can at every turn. The Amazon business model:
Squeezes workers: While tripling profits in Q3 2023, Amazon subjects warehouse workers and drivers to a high-pressure environment that breaks their bodies and ultimately forces them to quit.
Squeezes communities: While making €50 billion in revenue in 2022, Amazon did not pay any taxes for the fifth consecutive year in its European headquarters of Luxembourg.
Squeezes the planet: While Amazon celebrated a 0.4% drop in total emissions in 2022, it would still take the company until the year 2378 to reach its stated 2040 target of net zero emissions.
But on Black Friday, 24 November 2023, we will mount the biggest challenge to Amazon's abuses in its history.
We are workers and citizens divided by geography and our role in the global economy but united in our commitment to Make Amazon Pay fair wages, its taxes and for its impact on the planet.
Our success will shape the global economy in the 21st century.
Together, we will Make Amazon Pay.
Amazon can afford to pay, but only will if we make it.
On Black Friday, 24 November 2023, the movement to Make Amazon Pay rises up in over 30 countries across every inhabited continent. Join us.
For Black Friday 2023, we are organising strikes, protests and other actions in over 30 countries.
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The Make Amazon Pay campaign brings together over 80 organisations working towards labour, tax, climate, data and racial justice, and over 400 parliamentarians and tens of thousands of supporters from across the world. Since 2020, we have organised four global days of action — each time growing our planetary movement to stop Amazon squeezing workers, communities and the planet. And in October 2023, we organised our first-ever Summit to Make Amazon Pay in Manchester, UK.
Watch the videos from our past global days of actions here:
The Coalition
Progressive International
Progressive International unites, organizes, and mobilizes progressive forces around the world.
UNI Global Union
A global union federation representing more than 20 million workers from over 150 different countries in the fastest growing sectors in the world – skills and services.
Amazon Workers International
A cross-border coalition of Amazon workers from different countries, including Germany, Poland, Spain, France and the US, organizing beyond borders to beat Amazon.
350.org
A global grassroots movement working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.
Aapti Institute, India
A research institution working to generate public, policy-relevant, actionable and accessible knowledge from the frontiers of tech and society, to support the creation of a fair, free, and equitable society.
Algorithm Watch
A research and advocacy organization shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes that have a social relevance, processes used either to predict or prescribe human action or to make decisions automatically.
All India IT and ITeS Employees' Union
An organization that works for the welfare of IT/ITES employees, fighting issues like job insecurity, unsafe and unfriendliness for women, stressful work atmosphere, stretched working hours, etc.
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
An organization of Amazon employees who want climate leadership.
Arab Resource & Organizing Center
A grassroots organization working to empower and organize the community towards justice and self-determination for all.
Athena Coalition
A US grassroots alliance of dozens of labor, immigrant, and digital rights groups taking on Amazon together.
The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild advocates for the rights of writers by supporting free speech, fair contracts, and copyright. We create community and we fight for a living wage.
Attac Norway
The Norwegian branch of an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives in the globalisation process.
Attac France
The French branch of an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives in the globalisation process.
Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development
An alliance of more than 54 movements, trade unions, and grassroots groups across Asia.
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Balanced Economy Project
The Balanced Economy Project is a new international anti-monopoly organisation, focused on countries outside the United States.
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Berlin vs. Amazon
A diverse alliance of activists, tech workers, artists and local residents mobilizing against Amazon's exploitation and the corporation's settlement in Berlin's city center.
Building and Wood Worker’s International
The global union federation grouping free and democratic unions with members in the building industry and allied sectors, representing 12 million workers in 135 countries.
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
An organization committed to helping children thrive in an increasingly commercialized, screen-obsessed culture, and the only organization dedicated to ending marketing to children.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
A research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice, producing the research and analysis necessary for policymakers, activists, and everyday Canadians.
Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
A global corporate taks research centre that produces information and analysis to untangle the corporate tax web.
Clean Clothes Campaign
Clean Clothes Campaign is a global network dedicated to improving working conditions and empowering workers in the global garment and sportswear industries.
Common Wealth
An organization focusing on systemically vital areas where democratic ownership can transform how the economy operates and for whom.
Corporate Europe Observatory
A research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making.
Data for Black Lives
A movement of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people.
Datavakbond
Works to give people a say in what happens with their data and help them enforce conditions with organizations that handle this data.
Debt Collective
A debtors' union fighting to cancel debts and defend millions of households across the United States.
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
DiEM25 is a pan-European, progressive movement that aims to democratise the EU before it disintegrates.
ECOAR
An alliance of activitists that seek to build a useful tool for social movements and citizenship based on anti-capitalism, anti-globalization, responsible consumption, defense of public and environmentalism
Education International
The global union federation of teachers' trade unions, representing the voice of 32.5 million trade union members in 178 countries and territories.
EFFAT (European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism)
An organisation of independent and democratic trade unions representing workers in the food, agriculture, tourism, and domestic workers sectors in Europe.
European Arts and Entertainment Alliance
A union federation representing actors and musicians across Europe.
Ethical Consumer
An independent, not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative with open membership, which provides all the tools and resources consumers need, to make choices at the checkout simple, informed and effective.
Focus on the Global South
An activist think tank in Asia providing analysis and building alternatives for just social, economic and political change.
Friends of the Earth France
Friends of the Earth/Les Amis de la Terre fight for a transition to sustainable societies in both the Global South and the Global North, with a shared vision for global social and environmental justice.
Gen-Z for Change
Gen-Z for Change is a youth-led nonprofit organization utilizing digital tactics, tools, and coalitions to make a tangible change on the ground for issues that disproportionately affect marginalized communities.
Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
The Global Campaign is a network of over 250 social movements, civil society organisations, trade unions and communities fighting to challenge Transnational Corporations' power and end their impunity.
Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum
GLJ-ILRF holds global corporations accountable for labor rights violations in their supply chains, advances policies that protect decent work and just migration, and strengthens freedom of association, collective bargaining, and worker organizations.
Global Forest Coalition
An international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations defending social justice and the rights of forest peoples in forest policies.
Global Justice Now
Global Justice Now is part of a global movement to create a more just and equal world. We mobilise people in the UK for change, and act in solidarity with those fighting injustice, particularly in the global south.
Greenpeace
A campaigning organisation which exposes global environmental problems and develops solutions for a green and peaceful future.
Hawkers Joint Action Committee
A collective representing hundreds of thousands of street vendors across India.
HKM
A Pakistan-wide campaign for the enforcement of fundamental rights through grassroots organizing, momentum and pressure.
IT for Change
IT for Change aims for a society in which digital technologies contribute to human rights, social justice, and equity.
Independent Workers Union of Great Britain
An independent and dynamic trade union in the UK that fights with precarious, under-unionised, and under-represented workforces to take on gig economy corporate giants.
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IndustriAll
A global union federation representing 50 million workers in 140 countries in a range of sectors, challenging the power of multinational companies through global solidarity.
International Federation of Journalists
A global union federation of journalists' trade unions, representing more than 600.000 media workers from 187 organisations in 146 countries.
International Trade Union Confederation
Representing 200 million workers in 332 national affiliates, the ITUC promotes workers' rights and interests through international cooperation between trade unions, global campaigning and advocacy within major global institutions.
International Transport Workers' Federation
The ITF co-ordinates practical solidarity for transport unions around the world, representing over 18 million transport workers from 147 countries.
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations
Representing over 10 million workers worldwide, IUF organizes from the field to factories to hotels, restaurants and fast food chains, to fight and win for workers across the food chain.
Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce (India)
A committee representing almost all major traders, workers and farmers associations of India, standing up to resist efforts by big tech corporations to conquer digital India.
Just Net Coalition
A global network of civil society actors committed to an open, free, just and equitable Internet.
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Labour Behind the Label
A campaign that works to improve conditions and empower workers in the global garment industry.
Lebenswertes Liebenau
An initiative in Liebenau working for environmentally and people-friendly development of their district.
Migrant Justice
An organization that focuses on building the voice, capacity, and power of the farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights.
Model Alliance
The Model Alliance promotes fair treatment, equal opportunity, and sustainable practices in the fashion industry, from the runway to the factory floor.
Momentum
Momentum is a people movement aiming to transform the Labour Party, communities and Britain in the interests of the many, not the few through collective power, networks and tech.
Not Here Not Anywhere
Not Here Not Anywhere (NHNA) is a nationwide, grassroots, volunteer group campaigning to end fossil fuel exploration and the development of new fossil fuel infrastructure in Ireland. We advocate for a just transition to publicly-owned renewable energy systems and a society-wide reduction in energy demand both here and around the world. We are a non-partisan group and are not affiliated with any political party.
Observatory Civic Association
A non-profit organization, with the aim of looking after the particular interests of the community by representing the Observatory community in communications with governmental organizations.
Open Mic
An initiative that works to foster greater corporate accountability at media and technology companies.
Our Revolution
Our Revolution focuses on elections for a progressive representation in the USA and further to that, works on organizing a powerful grassroots movement inside the halls of power and in the streets to win transformative change.
Oxfam
A global movement of people fighting to tackle the inequalities that make and keep people poor.
Pacific Asia Resource Center
A non-profit organization in Japan committed to international social and economic justice, working with a variety of people's movements to foster solidarity links throughout the Asian Pacific region and beyond.
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Pacific Network on Globalisation
A regional watchdog promotes Pacific peoples' right to self-determination.
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Partners for Dignity & Rights
Partners for Dignity & Rights (formerly National Economic and Social Rights Initiative) envisions a just world where everyone is treated with dignity, everyone’s human needs are met, and everyone can thrive and reach their full potential.
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#PayUp Campaign
The #PayUp campaign formed in March 2020 out of the fashion industry’s catastrophic decision to refuse payment for completed clothing orders heading into the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Privacy International
An organization that aims to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from institutions who breach public trust.
Public Citizen
A nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, with 500,000 members, defending democracy, resisting corporate power and working to ensure that government works for the people, not for big corporations.
Public Services International
A global trade union federation representing over 20 million public service workers in 163 countries, championing human rights, social justice, and universal access to quality public services.
Remake
A community of fashion lovers, women rights advocates, and environmentalists on a mission to change the industry’s harmful practices on people and our planet.
Rinascimento Green
An independent initiative that started in Italy and aims to bring together various pieces of civil society to promote, through a path of popular participation, a Green New Deal.
SOLIDAR
A network of over 60 member organisations in 29 countries working to advance social justice in Europe and worldwide, driven by its shared values of solidarity, equality and participation.
SOMO
A research center that conducts action-oriented research to expose the impact and unprecedented power of multinationals.
SumOfUs
SumOfUs is a global community of millions committed to ensuring corporations and governments prioritize people and planet over profit.
Sunrise Movement
A movement of young people in the US, committed to stopping climate change and creating millions of good jobs in the process.
Tax Justice Network
An independent international network for research, analysis and advocacy in the area of tax and financial regulation, whose positions directly challenge the world's most powerful vested interests.
Tax Justice Network Africa
A pan-African research and advocacy organisation working to curb illicit financial flows (IFFs) and promote progressive taxation systems.
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Tax Justice NL
A network of Dutch civil society organizations and trade unions committed to a global fair tax system and advocates greater transparency from companies and governments.
Tax Justice UK
Tax Justice UK champions the role of tax and campaigns for a more progressive and effective tax system in the UK.
Website
The Leap
An organization that works to build and strengthen the bold and intersectional climate movement by expanding Green New Deal coalitions.
The Transnational Institute
A international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet, engaging social movements, scholars and policy makers.
Tech Workers Coalition
A coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends.
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA
The global justice organisation of the Australian union movement, working to support stronger union and social movements in thirteen locations in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Southern Africa.
Website
War on Want
An anti-poverty charity working to challenge the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice through partnership with social movements in the global South and campaigns in the UK.
Worker-driven Social Responsability Network
In 2015, worker organizations, allies, and technical advisors came together to create the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network for the purpose of expanding, promoting, and replicating this model in supply chains around the world.
Workings Peoples' Charter
A network of more than 150 provincial local organizations, focusing on bringing together all organizations working with, and organizing infromal workers.
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