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1000’s of Amazon staff are anticipated to protest or strike in additional than 20 nations throughout Black Friday and Cyber Monday to agitate for higher staff’ rights and local weather motion.
Motion is deliberate in large cities throughout the US, Germany, the UK, Turkey, Canada, India, Japan, Brazil and different nations. It’s coordinated by the Make Amazon Pay marketing campaign, which calls on Amazon – based by the billionaire Jeff Bezos – to pay its staff pretty and respect their proper to affix unions, pay its fair proportion of taxes, and decide to environmental sustainability.
Spearheaded by the Swiss-based UNI World Union for service industries and the activist umbrella group Progressive Worldwide, Make Amazon Pay is made up of greater than 80 commerce unions, anti-poverty and garment employee rights teams, and others.
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What are organizers saying? Christy Hoffman, the overall secretary of UNI World Union, stated: “Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit comes at a cost to workers, the environment and democracy.” Amanda Gearing, a senior organiser at GMB, stated: “Amazon represents everything that is broken about [the UK’s] economy. Insecure work, poverty wages and often unsafe working conditions.”
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How has Amazon responded? A spokesperson stated “we’re always listening and looking at ways to improve” however insisted “we remain proud of the competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and engaging, safe work experience we provide our teams”.
A whole bunch flee north Gaza as IDF orders extra evacuations amid intense airstrikes and ‘apocalyptic’ situations
The Israeli army has ordered the evacuation of recent areas of northern Gaza, setting off a contemporary wave of civilian displacements on Sunday as intense airstrikes continued throughout a lot of the territory.
The Israel Protection Forces stated the evacuation orders for the Shujaiya neighbourhood had been issued after Palestinian militants fired rockets at Israel on Saturday from a location throughout the densely populated district. Hamas’s armed wing stated it had focused a military base over the border.
The humanitarian scenario in northern Gaza has been described as apocalyptic by humanitarian officers, with tens of 1000’s struggling acute lack of water, sanitation, meals and medical provides.
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What’s the humanitarian toll of the battle? After the Hamas assault on Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed 1,200 folks and through which 250 had been taken hostage, Israel has bombarded the territory with airstrikes and a floor invasion. Infrastructure has been decimated, the inhabitants displaced a number of instances and introduced near hunger, and greater than 44,000 folks have been killed, in response to Gaza well being officers, with the UN Human Rights Workplace verifying almost 70% had been girls and kids. The demise toll is known to be an underestimate, with the UN estimating in Could 2024 that greater than 10,000 folks’s our bodies had been below the rubble.
Republican senator: ‘We’ll have plenty of questions’ for Trump’s controversial picks
A outstanding Republican US senator pledged on Sunday that Congress wouldn’t give blanket approval to Donald Trump’s controversial cupboard picks forward of the congressional affirmation course of.
Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma predicted lawmakers within the higher chamber would have robust questions specifically for the previous Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who was chosen by the president-elect as director of nationwide safety for his second administration.
“We’ll have lots of questions,” Lankford, the newly elected vice-chair of the Senate coverage committee, instructed CNN.
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What can Gabbard anticipate throughout her Senate affirmation? She faces a probably tough experience, after being accused of spreading Russian propaganda over the battle in Ukraine, prompting critics to ask if she is likely to be a “Russian asset”, in addition to her making a clandestine go to to Syria to fulfill the nation’s president, Bashar al-Assad, who’s accused of battle crimes.
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Authorized consultants say an Israeli strike that killed three journalists and wounded three extra could possibly be a battle crime, in a 25 October assault in south Lebanon. Remnants of munitions discovered on the website revealed that at the very least one of many weapons was US-made.
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The UK is dealing with continued flooding and disruption after being hit by the lethal Storm Bert.
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China is more and more unnerved about North Korea’s engagement with Russia, the US deputy secretary of state has stated.
Stat of the day: Cop29 local weather finance deal struck for $300bn-a-year – however criticized as ‘abysmally poor’
The local weather finance deal agreed at Cop29 early on Sunday morning has been labeled a “travesty of justice”. Growing nations urged wealthy nations to offer $1.3tn-a-year to assist with decarbonization and excessive climate. However the deal pledges $300bn yearly, with $1.3tn only a goal. Chandni Raina, a negotiator for India, stated it was “abysmally poor”.
Don’t miss this: The cut-throat world of theatre fight choreographers
When a scene requires violence, fight choreographers forestall actors getting injured. “Every step, every look, every moment is put together like a dance,” says Kate Waters, referred to as Kombat Kate.
Local weather verify: World shall be ‘unable to cope’ with quantity of plastic waste in 10 years, warns knowledgeable
This week sees the ultimate spherical of UN talks on the primary international treaty to finish plastic waste. However Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, co-chair of a coalition of 60 nations, warned the world shall be “unable to cope” with the amount of plastic waste a decade from now – until nations act.
Final Factor: Greek man in his 80s begins evening college after lifetime of toil
In his darkish swimsuit and polished loafers, Vasillis Panayiotaropoulos cuts a dapper determine and is by far the oldest pupil attending the second evening college of central Athens. “Everything I learn is interesting,” he says.
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