Verdi calls for strike at Amazon

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In the middle of the Christmas business has begun at Amazon with a strike. The retailer rejects the tariff negotiations on the grounds that he is not a retailer.

Strike the end of the Amazon plant in Leipzig (archive image of 2014)

Amazon has started to trade Union information in two locations, a several-day strike by workers. “There is a danger that Christmas gifts do not arrive on time,” said a spokesman for the Verdi trade Union, the German press Agency.

The unionists called on Amazon employee of the shipping trade in the centre of Saxony, in Leipzig, to strike up to Christmas eve. In the shipping trade center in Werne in North Rhine-Westphalia, you should strike first, until Tuesday evening. The strike, however, could be soon extended to more sites and a longer period of time, a spokesman said. Amazon was early Monday morning, not for the opinion reached.

Year Long Battle

The Union had called workers at the site of Rheinberg in the last week to work the fight. With the strike, the trade unionists want to settle your claim, underline, and working conditions collective bargaining agreement.

“We are calling for the work stoppage, because the Amazon-group men deny their employees the collective legal protection,” said Silke rooms, head of trading at ver.di NRW, according to a press release. “Amazon is arbitrary in the world of work. While the retailers in the US is as a retailer, to the higher industry-standard wages in the logistics sector do not pay, they claim here that they were logisticians, to work around the higher wages in the retail sector.”

Verdi called on Amazon for more than five years, to engage in collective bargaining similar to the single – and shipping trade. The U.S. company rejected this. Amazon sees itself as a logistics company, and refers to a payment at the upper end of what is in the logistics industry.

stu/sam (dpa, verdi.de)