FRANKFURT – Personnel at six Amazon internet sites in Germany will go on strike on Monday in protest around protection right after some staff members at logistics facilities tested optimistic for coronavirus, labour union Verdi reported.
Verdi explained on Sunday that the strike would last at the very least 48 hrs, below the motto ‘Good and healthier work’, to denounce what it referred to as a deficiency of transparency by the US retail giant just after staff analyzed positive for COVID-19.
“We have information that at minimum 30 to 40 colleagues were being contaminated,” said Verdi agent Orhan Akman.
Amazon has confronted a extended-operating battle with unions in Germany above far better spend and situations for logistics employees, who have staged frequent strikes considering the fact that 2013.
Verdi said the strikes will strike Amazon sites in Leipzig, Terrible Hersfeld, Rheinberg, Werne and Koblenz. It mentioned Amazon was putting revenue in advance of the protection of its staff.
Amazon rejected the accusations in a assertion and stated that as of June it experienced invested $4 billion on measures to secure its world-wide workforce and consumers from the threat of COVID-19 infections.
In Germany, its major market after the United States, Amazon has considering that February ordered 470 million hand disinfection bottles, 21 million pairs of gloves, 19 million masks and other encounter security gear and 39 million containers of disinfectant wipes, a spokesman for Amazon in Germany mentioned.
