<p class="mol-para-with-font">Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers are today staging a mass Black Friday strike across 40 countries including the US and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/germany/index.html" _mce_href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/germany/index.html" target="_blank">Germany</a>&nbsp;in a row over pay and working conditions.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The global strike action on one of the biggest shopping days of the year was called for by campaign group Make Amazon Pay. It has titled the protests 'Make Amazon Pay Day'.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The initiative, promoted by groups on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/twitter/index.html" _mce_href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/twitter/index.html" target="_blank">Twitter</a>&nbsp;under #MakeAmazonPay listed the industrial action planned in the 40 countries across the globe.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Employees at a company workhouse in St Peters, Missouri, will today stop work as part of the protests and Whole Foods stores owned by Amazon will also take labor actions. Strike action will also take place in&nbsp;Bessemer,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/alabama/index.html" _mce_href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/alabama/index.html" target="_blank">Alabama</a>; Columbia, Maryland; Detroit, Michigan; Durham, North Carolina; Garner ; Joliet,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/illinois/index.html" _mce_href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/illinois/index.html" target="_blank">Illinois</a>; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; and Washington, D.C.</p>