FRANKFURT – Workers at six Amazon web-sites in Germany will go on strike on Monday in protest more than basic safety after some staff at logistics facilities tested beneficial for coronavirus, labour union Verdi explained.
Verdi said on Sunday that the strike would past at the very least 48 hours, under the motto ‘Good and healthy work’, to denounce what it referred to as a absence of transparency by the US retail huge just after staff examined constructive for COVID-19.
“We have info that at the very least 30 to 40 colleagues were being contaminated,” mentioned Verdi representative Orhan Akman.
Amazon has confronted a very long-operating struggle with unions in Germany above better shell out and ailments for logistics employees, who have staged regular strikes because 2013.
Verdi claimed the strikes will strike Amazon web sites in Leipzig, Poor Hersfeld, Rheinberg, Werne and Koblenz. It reported Amazon was placing gain in advance of the safety of its employees.
Amazon turned down the accusations in a statement and explained that as of June it experienced invested $4 billion on actions to protect its global workforce and consumers from the hazard of COVID-19 bacterial infections.
In Germany, its greatest current market just after the United States, Amazon has due to the fact February purchased 470 million hand disinfection bottles, 21 million pairs of gloves, 19 million masks and other experience safety gear and 39 million boxes of disinfectant wipes, a spokesman for Amazon in Germany said.
