Posted on 11/24/2017 3:05:26 PM PST by Libloather
BERLIN — Workers at a half dozen Amazon (AMZN) distribution centers in Germany and one in Italy walked off the job Friday, in a protest timed to coincide with "Black Friday" to demand better wages from the American online giant.
In Germany, union spokesman Thomas Voss said some 2,500 workers were on strike at Amazon facilities in Bad Hersfeld, Leipzig, Rheinberg, Werne, Graben and Koblenz. In northern Italy, in a warehouse near Piacenza, some workers walked off the job to demand "dignified salaries."
The German union has been leading a push since 2013 for higher pay for some 12,000 workers in Germany, arguing Amazon employees receive lower wages than others in retail and mail-order jobs. Amazon says its distribution warehouses in Germany are logistics centers and employees earn relatively high wages for that industry.
The strikes in Germany are expected to end Saturday.
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Oh my!
I certainly hope Jeff Bezos gives those wonderful unionized workers EVERYTHING THEY ASK FOR!!
all they’ll get is their jobs moved someplace else
Leftards are supposed to be compassionate right? LOL
Good luck with all that....
And very pro-union!!
Achtung Robots!
Raus, raus!
Fire ‘em.
I don't know how things are in Germany, but anyone in Italy with a job ought to be damned thankful. Additionally, I don't think Amazon could be employing people in Italy - in the EU for that matter - without having to follow standard labor laws.
Amazon has been known to lock the doors on a distribution center and walk away. Ship out the existing stock, turn off the conveyer and the lights and lock the doors. Anything you want to ship out of a spot can be shipped out of another spot.
Union black mail can get a State black listed.
There is a reason non right to work states have so few Amazons.
However, if it works well in a location more Amazons will spring up like mushrooms after a rainstorm.
Minnisota... one
Tracy California within a hundred miles, six and counting, at a Billion bucks a pop and over a thousand jobs each. Unions are good at cooking the goose that lays golden eggs.
Amazon working conditions are better and they pay more than the competition. They are not going to beg. They also hire American, not illegals.
I work in Amazons all the time, few come close to their quality standards, most distribution warehouses hire a majority of illegals and are far worse working conditions.
If there ate Amazons in your State, I have been there...
Kohls, Best Buy, Children’s place, Nike American Eagle etc.,. it’s a livin... But Amazon is one of the Best.
Amazon should pay a $15 living wage. They’re run by a liberal clown. He should face the music.
What exactly is a dignified salary?
Wow, who knew untrained temp help would make less???
If they don’t like the pay, no one is making them stay at that job. Go find a job that pays what they think they’re worth.
Libloather - don't believe the fake news from the Governor.
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Germany runs around 9 Amazon warehouse operations (Bad Hersfeld, Leipzig, Werne, Rheinberg, Graben, Koblenz, Pforzheim, Brieselang, and Dortmund). Generally, at least with the first two or three warehouses established...they picked areas that had higher unemployment and less metropolitan (very rural would be a good word).
While they met the standard EU/German labor law business, the two chief questions that come up revolve around: (1) classification of the job position (they were all ID’ed as warehouse staff), and (2) stress within the job on a daily basis. Apparently, they are tracked and there are x-number of expectations placed against them on every shift.
Pay-wise, I think they all start just slightly above minimum-wage level, and it takes a year to get bumped up to the next step. I agree with you....one ought to be thankful of just about any job these days. My belief is that in the years to come, a fair number of these positions will end up with migrants/immigrants, who won’t complain over the payscale as much.
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