Workers for the largest online retailer in the world are on strike during one of the busiest shopping weekends of the holiday season. Amazon employees have begun protesting, with demonstrations planned in more than 20 countries starting on Black Friday over "labor abuses,

Thousands of Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

Trade unions and workers' groups are organizing protests to align with the shopping period spanning Black Friday to Cyber Monday.