Online trading
Further strikes at Amazon
The German Amazon employees want better contracts. The US retailer does not want to negotiate about it. To Koblenz now want to put Employees of other locations of the work shortly before Easter.
It is an unequal battle: The German employees of the online retailer want to have a collective agreement in accordance with the terms and conditions of the item and the shipping trade. The giant from the USA rejects for about three years, categorically. Amazon sees itself as a logistics company, and refers to a payment at the upper end of the in this industry standard salary.
The trade Union Verdi is now just before the Easter business to guerrilla tactics: small-needle stitches, the pain but. “It can come prior to Easter at any time in the short term, in a different Amazon location to strike. Where and when exactly, can we even open,” said Verdi spokeswoman Eva Voelpel, after yesterday’s strike at the site in Koblenz.
The Easter packages come püntlich?
Since Wednesday, some of the Employees are called in to the dispatch centres, Rheinberg and Werne in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) to strike. The work stoppage is valid from Thursday morning and will last until the end of the late shift on Saturday, so the trade Union Verdi.
For the past three years, the staff of Amazon are fighting for more wages here in July 2013
Overall, Amazon employs more than 10,000 people in Germany. In Europe, he has 29 logistics centres. Accordingly, left the group responded to the challenge. In case of a strike, other locations could be used to help, said Amazon spokeswoman Anette neighbor, and assured: “We are pleased that our customers will get their Easter packages on time.”
If the needle stitches in Werne and Rheinberg to the group hurt, is so far open. The Verdi trade Union believes more in the success of the action, and keeps the long-term goal of a revaluation of the contracts. Should refuse to permit Amazon to continue to negotiate on the collective commitment, will.also this year, “restless”, the trade Union Federation NRW
nm/bea (dpa, rtr, afp)