Amazon employees nationwide strike in Germany December 16, 2014 http://news.newsdirectory1.com/amazon-employees-nationwide-strike-in-germany/
Koblenz / Munich – Located in the Christmas business Verdi expanded the labor dispute when shipping retailer Amazon union. On Tuesday remained after the unions, more than 2,500 employees in six of the nine German locations outside the gates. On Monday there were over 2000 employees at five locations in the walkout. Now also in Koblenz Amazon employees participating in the strike, according to Verdi applied to three days. Even after the end of the action in the night of Thursday will not surrender Verdi. On Wednesday, further decisions will fall. In the hot phase before the holidays, the union wants to force the online retailer to the negotiating table. Amazon sees itself as a logistics company that pays wages in this sector upscale. The union demands a better equipped collective agreement on terms of retail. Amazon claims to have employed 10,000 employees before Christmas 10 000 seasonal staff also. The CEO of Amazon Germany, Ralf Kleber sees no need for collective bargaining. “We have always been on employee participation, we have elected councils at each site.” Even on the days of strikes run the business as usual. Very cold does not let him the recusal but: “Of course we are tense, which is one of the most important weeks of the year, since the customer is the focus, of course everything has to work.”. The union reported disturbances in operation by the walkout. Amazon denied this. We’ve been preparing with the pan-European logistics network with 28 locations to the strike, said company spokeswoman Anette neighbor. “It has broken down no packet.” And that does continue. Amazon had settled in advance orders over other logistics centers abroad. Also, for example, a Sunday shift was on Werne in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to council Frank Schrand ahead of the strike inserted. On Monday was the strike to the Amazon sites in Bad Hersfeld, Hesse, in Leipzig (Saxony), in Graben (Bavaria), Rheinberg and Werne (both NRW) went off. Overall, according to the unions, on the first day involved almost 2,300 employees, Amazon spoke of approximately 2,100 strikers. Whether the strikers to return to their jobs on Thursday’m not decided yet, said Verdi spokesman Karsten Rupprecht in Werne. “This will be decided on Wednesday.” On the third day of the strike, the union wants to increase the pressure. The strikers from the two sites and NRW Bad Hersfeld want to drive on Wednesday with buses to a central strike rally to Koblenz. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
