{"id":23074,"date":"2018-11-24T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23074"},"modified":"2018-11-24T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T14:23:14","slug":"black-friday-protests-at-amazon-against-worker-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23074","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday protests at Amazon against worker conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"68.7857142857\">\n<p>Amazon workers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-kingdom.html\">UK<\/a> and elsewhere in Europe used &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest against the mega-company Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>A UK union has described the working conditions inside Amazon&#8217;s distribution centres as &#8220;frankly inhuman&#8221; and said that workers were treated like robots without even time to use the toilet.<\/p>\n<p>The GMB union also said that ambulances had been called 600 times to Amazon&#8217;s 14 warehouses in the past three fiscal years. Amazon has told Al Jazeera that their working sites are safe and have fewer accidents on average than similar companies.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Emma Hayward reports from central England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon workers in the UK and elsewhere in Europe used &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest against the mega-company Amazon. A UK union has described the working conditions inside Amazon&#8217;s distribution centres as &#8220;frankly inhuman&#8221; and said that workers were treated like robots without even time to use the toilet.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}