{"id":7533,"date":"2022-06-30T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/?post_type=news&p=7533"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T10:22:17","slug":"verdi-wunstorf","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/verdi-wunstorf\/","title":{"rendered":"ver.di wins historic Amazon Works Council elections in Wunstorf"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of struggle to successfully establish the first works council in an Amazon delivery center, UNI affiliate ver.di won a majority of delegates in Wunstorf, located in the Hanover region, ensuring workers\u2019 voice will be heard there.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After around 200 employees elected the works council representatives, the responsible ver.di secretary Dietmar G\u00f6rsdorf<\/span> said<\/span>: “I am pleased that legal co-determination is now also finding its way into the sorting and distribution centers of Amazon!”\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In recent months there have\u00a0 been successful works council elections in the Amazon logistics centers, the so-called fulfillment centers, in Achim and Winsen in Lower Saxony. There, too, the unionized lists had achieved good results.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For Serdal Sardas, the newly elected ver.di works council in Wunstorf, contact with other Amazon locations is particularly important: “It was a hard, rocky road, but we won.\u00a0I would now like to encourage my colleagues at other Amazon locations: set up works councils, stand up for your colleagues.\u00a0What we have done, you have been able to do for a long time!”<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

ver.di has long criticized working conditions at Amazon warehouses and delivery centers in Germany. While thousands of Amazon workers have joined ver.di, the company has rejected bargainging a collective agreements with its employees there. The company\u2019s hostility to unions has provoked dozens of strikes and other workplace actions in Germany and across Europe over the past years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amazon has a history of neglecting workers\u2019 rights. According to <\/span>The Amazon Panopticon<\/span><\/a> \u2014 UNI Global Union\u2019s report on the intrusive and all-encompassing Amazon worker surveillance systems\u2014Amazon\u2019s highly invasive, and ultrafast delivery process is hiding harmful effects on its 1.3 million workers. Employees are relentlessly monitored, evaluated, and subjected to high-pressure and gruelling conditions.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This model is so inhumane that in a ground-breaking investigation, the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/a> reported, \u201cAmazon burns through workers so quickly that executives are worried they\u2019ll run out of people to employ.\u201d <\/span>Bloomberg News<\/span><\/a> also reported that Amazon drivers have been \u201cfired by the app\u201d for minor mishaps that a human manager would have ignored.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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