Exhausted Amazon staff fight back against retail giant at global UK summit

Meeting in Manchester is part of worldwide action - including Black Friday protests - over tax, market abuse and workers' rights It was about 3am on a night shift in May last year when Amazon worker Christine Manno tried to retrieve a box stacked high in the warehouse in St Peters, Missouri. She was 30ft in the air, strapped to a harness and standing on the edge of the raised platform of a truck. She was recovering from operations on her injured hands for carpal tunnel syndrome, a neurological d...