Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN Employees in 40 countries are planning protests and strikes during the Black Friday sales.

What happened: according to a campaign titled “Make Amazon Pay” Workers in the US, UK, India, Japan, Australia, South Africa and across Europe are demanding higher wages and better working conditions. The workers decided to protest on the busiest day of the year to make their voices heard.

According to Bloomberg, the movement is coordinated by the international coalition of trade unions, UNI Global Union.

Protests will take place in more than 10 cities across the US, including New York. In addition, unions in France and Germany are planning coordinated strikes in 18 major warehouses.

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In the UK, workers affiliated with the GMB union have planned protests outside several warehouses. There will also be demonstrations nearby Amazon’s new offices in Cape Town, South Africa.

Earlier this month, the nearly 1,000 workers at packaging maker DS Smith in the UK voted to strike over pay. Employees at five DS Smith sites across the UK could leave before the end of November.

“While we’re not perfect in any area, if you look objectively at what Amazon is doing on these important issues, you’ll see that we take our role and influence very seriously,” Bloomberg quoted Amazon spokesman David Nieberg as saying.

Amazon could cut around 10,000 jobs in the areas of retail, devices and human resources.

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