ditch – Employees of the online mail-order company Amazon have laid down in the early hours of Monday in Bad Hersfeld their work. The union Verdi called the Amazon employees at four locations in Germany to a strike. At Leipzig, Bad Hersfeld, digging at Augsburg and in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rheinberg work is up to the end of the night shift on Tuesday are set out.
“The pressure to perform is now taking inhuman traits,” said Ver. di-strike manager Thomas Gürlebeck. Amazon employees complained of temporary contracts, extreme pressure performance and insufficient labor and break rules. In addition, employees would get some many hundred euros less than they would have under the collective agreements in the retail and mail order trade.
“We put ourselves on a hot autumn”
Verdi tried for more than a year, the world’s biggest online retailer with strikes at various locations to move to collective bargaining under the terms of the retail trade. According to Verdi negotiator Bernhard Schiederig are now taking half of the eight sites in the labor dispute, the number of strikers had increased significantly. “We put ourselves on a hot autumn”, so Schiederig.
In trench Amazon has announced wage increases from 2.1 to 3 percent. “The resistance of employees shows their effect,” says Verdi federal board member Stefanie Nutzenberger. “Amazon is under pressure., But we will not accept that the company arbitrarily dictated wages. Only one collective agreement guarantees the employees existence-securing income and working conditions.”
The US-based Amazon defines itself as a logistics and based on the lower wages in this sector.
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