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Berlin (dpa) - The service union Verdi has called on the employees of the mail order company Amazon at six locations to a four-day strike before Easter.
He should start the night shift from Sunday to Monday.
The locations affected are Werne, Rheinberg (both North Rhine-Westphalia), Leipzig (Saxony), Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate) and two locations in Bad Hersfeld, Hesse.
Due to the closure of large parts of the stationary retail trade during the Corona crisis, the order volume at Amazon went through the roof, said Orhan Akman, who is responsible for retail and mail order at Verdi.
“The colleagues had to unload it.
Due to the constant hustle and bustle and performance monitoring, it is often hardly possible to adhere to intervals and other measures against infection. "
Amazon has so far refused to conclude a binding collective agreement to protect employees.
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Amazon does not expect the strike to have any impact.
The company announced that one would look forward to it calmly.
The mail order company referred to previous promotions.
In previous strike calls, more than 90 percent of the employees in the logistics centers “worked normally”.
Amazon is wrongly exposed to criticism.
"We have become a projection surface for groups who seek attention for their topics," it said in a statement.
The employees would benefit from “excellent wages, excellent additional benefits and excellent career opportunities”.
In the USA, too, unions are at odds with the online giant: The deadline for a vote on employee representation in a logistics warehouse in the US state of Alabama ends this Monday.
It would be Amazon's first US location with employee representation in the company's 26-year history.
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