16th December 2014 07:03 clock

strike at Amazon in ditch at Augsburg on 15/12/2014

Strike Amazon in the trench at Augsburg on 12/15/2014 | © Michaela Rehle / Reuters

The union Verdi has extended the strike at Amazon. Employees of the logistics center in Koblenz (Rheinland-Pfalz) increased with the start of the morning shift by 5 clock stopped work. According to Verdi spokesman Juergen Dehnert approximately 100 employees gathered outside the factory gates. This is a strike simultaneously for the first time in six of the nine German Amazon sites.

Already last Monday had employees in Bad Hersfeld (Hesse), Leipzig (Saxony), Graben (Bavaria), Rheinberg and Werne (both NRW ) the work laid down. The strike will last until Wednesday. According to the union on the first day involved almost 2,300 employees, Amazon said 2,100 strikers. In the Christmas season to work at Amazon nationwide according to the company about 10,000 permanent employees and 10,000 seasonal workers.

no ordinary collective agreement for these workers at Amazon. Ver.di wants to move the US mail order company to engage in collective bargaining on the terms of retail. Amazon rejects this and describes himself as a logistics company. An agreement is not in sight. The union is calling since 2013 repeatedly on to walkouts.

Verdi board member Stefanie Nutzenberger signaled they will adhere to the requirements. “What weighs more because:? The fact that a packet time is under the Christmas tree – or that a global company, even when we respect the rights of employees The answer is quite obvious,” she said of the image newspaper. “If any man defile the Christmas party, then Amazon. The Company may terminate the strike, if it abandons its blockade and a collective agreement terminates.”

go apart the estimates to the effects of the strike. While Verdi impairments and delivery delays talks, says Amazon, the packets come on time to customers.