{"id":8175,"date":"2022-09-14T13:48:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8175"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:53:06","slug":"strike-in-winsen","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/strike-in-winsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon workers strike in Winsen, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Joining workers from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/europe\/workers-stage-strikes-across-europe-amid-rising-cost-of-living\/2669468\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">all over Europe<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> who are protesting a cost-of-living crisis that is eating up their wages,\u00a0 Amazon employees at HAM2 in Winsen, near Hamburg, went on strike today for better pay and improved working conditions.\u202fAccording to their union ver.di, a UNI affiliate, around 1,700 people work in Winsen, and a third of them have temporary contracts.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">&#8220;We are on strike because Amazon has made a wage adjustment that is far too low,&#8221; a ver.di representative told the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/landtag-hannover-warnstreik-im-amazon-logistikzentrum-winsen-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-220914-99-751459\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">German press<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u202f&#8221;Amazon is now paying three percent more without negotiating with the union. That is not enough for us.\u202fAgainst the background of high inflation, that is not enough.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In Germany \u2013 Amazon\u2019s second biggest market after the United States \u2013 workers have been striking a collective agreement, better pay and improved conditions for years. At a strike in Bad Hersfeld this summer, Mechthild Middeke, secretary for the ver.di trade union,\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-amazon-workers-stage-1-day-strike-over-pay\/a-62786696\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">said the cost of living\u202f<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">is a heavy burden for many employees. \u201cIf Amazon makes Prime membership 28% more expensive and justifies this with rising costs, then we have these rising costs too and want compensation for it,\u201d she said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Amazon has resisted ver.di\u2019s calls to sign a collective bargaining agreement.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Across the world, Amazon workers and civil society organizations have been critical of the tech giant for its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/04\/03\/amazon-tweet-peeing-bottles-apology\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">brutal working conditions<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> and use of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/the-future-of-work-depends-on-stopping-amazons-union-busting-shareholders-and-policymakers-must-all-play-a-role-in-protecting-amazon-workers-rights\/#:~:text=Amazon's%20use%20of%20a%20wide,to%20their%202021%20union%20election.\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">union-busting tactics.<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cGerman Amazon workers are striking again because the company refuses to share its success with the people who have made it so successful,\u201d said Mathias Bolton, Head of UNI Global Union\u2019s Commerce sector. \u201cIts time that Amazon sign a collective agreement that has the decent pay and safe conditions workers deserve. Until then, the global labour movement will continue to stand with ver.di\u2014and Amazon workers around the world\u2014to make Amazon pay.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining workers from all over Europe who are protesting a cost-of-living crisis that is eating up their wages,\u00a0 Amazon employees at HAM2 in Winsen, near Hamburg, went on strike today for better pay and improved working conditions.\u202fAccording to their union ver.di, a UNI affiliate, around 1,700 people work in Winsen, and a third of them have temporary 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