Bilderberg attendee Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards
to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany
Internet giant investigates abuse claims by
foreign workers in its German warehouses
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-neonazi-guards-to-keep-immigrant-workforce-under-control-in-germany-8495843.html
Tony Paterson Indie - Berlin Thursday 14 February 2013
Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in
Germany as the online shopping giant faced claims
that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi
connections to intimidate its foreign workers.
Germany’s ARD television channel made the
allegations in a documentary about Amazon’s
treatment of more than 5,000 temporary staff from
across Europe to work at its German packing and distribution centres.
The film showed omnipresent guards from a company
named HESS Security wearing black uniforms, boots
and with military haircuts. They were employed to
keep order at hostels and budget hotels where
foreign workers stayed. “Many of the workers are
afraid,” the programme-makers said.
The documentary provided photographic evidence
showing that guards regularly searched the
bedrooms and kitchens of foreign staff. “They
tell us they are the police here,” a Spanish
woman complained. Workers were allegedly frisked
to check they had not walked away with breakfast rolls.
Another worker called Maria said she was thrown
out of the cramped chalet she shared with five
others because she had dried her wet clothes on
a wall heater. She said she was confronted by a
muscular, tattooed security man and told to
leave. The guards then shone car headlights at
her in her chalet while she packed in an apparent attempt to intimidate her.
Several guards were shown wearing Thor Steinar
clothing – a Berlin-based designer brand
synonymous with the far-right in Germany. The
Bundesliga football association and the federal
parliament have both banned the label because of
its neo-Nazi associations. Ironically, Amazon
stopped selling the clothing for the same reasons in 2009.
ARD suggested that the name “HESS Security” was
an allusion to Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf
Hess. It alleged that its director was a man,
named only as Uwe L, who associated with football
hooligans and convicted neo-Nazis who were known
to police. The programme-makers, who booked in at
one of the budget hotels where Amazon staff were
housed, said they were arrested by HESS Security
guards after being caught using cameras. They
were ordered to hand over their film and, when
they refused, were held for nearly an hour before
police arrived and freed them. The film showed
HESS guards scuffling with the camera crew and trying to cover their lenses.
ARD said Amazon’s temporary staff worked
eight-hour shifts packing goods at the company’s
logistics centres in Bad Hersfeld, Konstanz and
Augsburg. Many walked up to 17 kilometres per
shift and all those taken on could be fired at
will. On arrival in Germany, most were told their
pay had been cut to below the rate promised when
they applied for jobs at Amazon. “They don’t see
any way of complaining,” said Heiner Reimann, a
spokesman for the United Services Union (Ver.di).
“They are all too frightened of being sent home without a job.”
Silvina, a Spanish mother of three in her 50s,
who lost her job as an art teacher, was featured
in the film. She applied for three months’ work
with Amazon to earn some badly needed cash. “It’s
like being in a machine and we are just a small
part in this machine,” she told the programme.
HESS Security did not respond to the allegations made by ARD.
Amazon employs 7,700 full-time staff at seven
distrubution centres in Germany. The accusations
led to the company’s Facebook site being inundated with angry complaints.
The company said: “Although the security firm was
not contracted by Amazon we are, of course,
currently examining the allegations concerning
the behaviour of security guards and will take
the appropriate measures immediately. We do not
tolerate discrimination or intimidation.”
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