https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Amazon-faces-Christmas-Strike-Disruption/m-p/2436748#M111891 From the Business pages of tonight's London Evening Standard.<BR /><BR />By Lucy Tobin<BR /><BR />AMAZON is facing major disruption in the crucial Christmas shopping period as employees of the internet giant in Germany ans the US go on strike.<BR /><BR />Workers at Amazon's logistic centres in Bad Hersfeld,Leipzig and Graben in Germany, where the online business employs 9000 people, are striking over a long term pay dispute<BR /><BR />German workers at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle are also striking.<BR /><BR />The Verdi union says Amazon is not paying it's staff a comparable wage to those of other warehouse staff in Germany, because the company has classified the employees as lower-paid logistics workers<BR /><BR />The union is also unhappy with what it calls Amazon's practise of "constant monitoring" of workers, as well as what it claims are impossible workplace targets.<BR /><BR />After Amazon said it is to open three new distribution centres in Poland, German employees are reported to be nervous that their jobs will go to Polish workers<BR /><BR />Amazon said it's staff in Germany are logistics workers who receive above average pay for the industry.<BR /><BR />END Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:33:30 GMT inajiffyuk 2013-12-16T22:33:30Z https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Amazon-faces-Christmas-Strike-Disruption/m-p/2436748#M111891 From the Business pages of tonight's London Evening Standard.<BR /><BR />By Lucy Tobin<BR /><BR />AMAZON is facing major disruption in the crucial Christmas shopping period as employees of the internet giant in Germany ans the US go on strike.<BR /><BR />Workers at Amazon's logistic centres in Bad Hersfeld,Leipzig and Graben in Germany, where the online business employs 9000 people, are striking over a long term pay dispute<BR /><BR />German workers at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle are also striking.<BR /><BR />The Verdi union says Amazon is not paying it's staff a comparable wage to those of other warehouse staff in Germany, because the company has classified the employees as lower-paid logistics workers<BR /><BR />The union is also unhappy with what it calls Amazon's practise of "constant monitoring" of workers, as well as what it claims are impossible workplace targets.<BR /><BR />After Amazon said it is to open three new distribution centres in Poland, German employees are reported to be nervous that their jobs will go to Polish workers<BR /><BR />Amazon said it's staff in Germany are logistics workers who receive above average pay for the industry.<BR /><BR />END Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:33:30 GMT https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Amazon-faces-Christmas-Strike-Disruption/m-p/2436748#M111891 inajiffyuk 2013-12-16T22:33:30Z https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Amazon-faces-Christmas-Strike-Disruption/m-p/2436802#M111892 <P><A target="_blank" href="http://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/re-Amazon-panorama-prog/m-p/2373700#M110708">http://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/re-Amazon-panorama-prog/m-p/2373700#M110708</A></P><P>They don't treat their workers in this country very well either</P> Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:43:21 GMT https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/The-Round-Table/Amazon-faces-Christmas-Strike-Disruption/m-p/2436802#M111892 joe_bloggs* 2013-12-16T22:43:21Z