Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) workers in Germany will strike the company, according to a major union that has a number of members who work for the e-commerce firm.
From the union’s website, via Google Translate:
Amazon employees in NRW are going through this time until Christmas
After several three-day Adventsstreiks the employees at Amazon in Rheinberg and Werne today (Wednesday, December 21) in the middle of the lucrative Christmas shop now entered a “Christmas strike”. The goal of the strike until Christmas Eve is the establishment of a tariff binding to the area tariff agreement of the retail trade. The world’s largest online department store Amazon has hitherto rejected any tariff binding for its employees. During the workbenches, there is always a traffic jam in front of the company. This blocks the delivery and delivery of goods for hours. “The strikes mean a tangible loss business for the company and create chaotic conditions in the delivery of wares, even if the online retailer is able to assert the opposite to the outside,” explained Silke Zimmer, ver.di Director of Trade for NRW.
The determination of the employees now led to the fact that in Rheinberg, repeatedly unannounced from the ongoing operation was struck out. This makes it impossible to divert goods flows to other warehouses in other European countries. The trade union ver.di also reports of increased admissions in the NRW locations during the last weeks.
Amazon has faced similar problems in Germany for some time. One of the company’s primary concerns is likely that a successful set of strikes in Germany might lead to labor unrest in the United States.
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