German Workers Strike Off Amazon

Since the start of last Christmas, the German Verdi Union has started organizing strikes to put pressure on Amazon, so that workers can strive for better working conditions and salaries. Amazon subsided the strike at the time by offering Christmas bonus to German employees. However, the strike activities of Verdi Union and Amazon employees in Germany did not end there.

Although Germany does not have a minimum wage, it requires that wages be set according to industry. According to a report from the Internet information website "Daily Dot", Amazon believes that the company's logistics center employees should be classified as warehousing workers, which means that although they do not exceed the average level, their salary of $13 an hour is also reasonable. But the Verdi union thinks that the staff of Amazon logistics center should be classified as postal employees and should get a higher salary.

Verdi the dispute between unions and Amazon has never stopped, even involving the number of employees involved in the strike. Verdi union said 500 employees were involved in the strike at the Amazon Leipzig logistics center with 1200 employees. However, Amazon said the number of employees who actually participated in the strike was less than 340.

Amazon is very calm about the strike of Verdi Union, and believes that its impact on the company's business is very limited. At present, Amazon has 9000 workers in 9 logistics centers in Germany, plus 14 thousand temporary workers. The strike of hundreds of Verdi trade union organizations has a very limited impact on the company's business.

What complicate matters is that Amazon Employees have shown anti Union positions to show that they are on the same front with their bosses.

　　 Amazon versus Germany Staff strike The following statement was issued.

Yesterday, trade union Verdi organized a strike in our logistics center in Leipzig. Less than 340 employees chose not to work. The vast majority of employees still work on time and are committed to delivering the best customer experience. Amazon did not find customer shipments affected.

Amazon Logistics Centre It is a logistics company that performs customer orders. Compared with other logistics companies, the salaries of our employees are at the top end of the wage scale. Plus bonus, insurance and pension, Amazon employees earn an initial wage of 9.55 euros per hour, and employees who have been employed for more than one year earn more than 10 euros per hour; employees who have been employed for more than two years can get shares in the company. Therefore, we can see no benefit from signing an agreement with the trade union.

All the logistics centers in Amazon have staff representatives. We work closely with them to ensure that we consider the interests of employees.