Amazon workers hoping to disrupt Prime Day operations Wednesday afternoon in the Twin Cities.
Workers organizing with an advocacy group are planning to protest outside the MSP-1 Amazon warehouse in Shakopee to demand higher wages.
"The employees have said that life has been hard," says outreach coordinator Abdirazak Abdi. "Inflation is hitting them hard, and their wages are not enough to support their work and their life."
Abdi says workers are also fed up with unnecessary write-ups, unfair treatment from management.
"People have expressed things like, if I don't speak enough English, the manager picks on me," Abdi adds. "It's the smallest little things, they're basically being written up for. So the employees feel like they're being mistreated and being weeded out of the system."
And workers also are upset about one other major sticking point.
"A lot of the employees have been on white badge system, which is kind of a temporary status, and we're asking for a conversion of that temporary status to permanent blue badge status," he explains.
