CNET -While Amazon is working to push its big Prime Day summer sale this week, activists and unions are using the day to highlight their many concerns about the world's biggest online store. Those issues vary widely, from working conditions in warehouses to climate issues to the US Immigration and Customers Enforcement agency.
Much of the activist attention in the US will be directed at Shakopee, Minnesota, where Amazon warehouse workers there plan to protest Monday, in the middle of the Prime Day sale. They want to raise public awareness of what they describe as poor working conditions and a lack of career advancement for the warehouse's many East African employees.
Those workers will be joined by tech workers from Amazon Employees For Climate Justice, a group pushing Amazon to address climate issues, who will be flying in from Seattle to walk the picket line.
Other activities will be taking place in New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Europe, according to organizers.
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