South Australians are joining a nationwide strike by the Transport Workers’ Union (TWU), the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) and the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) against what they claim is Amazon’s “destruction of Australian jobs and businesses”.

In Adelaide, the protest is taking place outside the Amazon warehouse and delivery station in Cavan this morning, while there were also protests in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.

Unions were demanding that Amazon “pay fair wages”, “pay its fair share of tax”, “pay for the creative and media content used to pay AI”, “stop excessive worker surveillance”, and “respect workers’ right to a voice at work through their unions”.

The US global online shopping and delivery giant was founded in 1994 a

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