German labour union Verdi announced a strike in Amazon’s distribution center in Bad Hersfeld, Germany. This is the web shop’s largest German distribution center and the strike should last the remainder of the year.
Not much effect
Verdi expects several hundred people to join the strike and to stop working from today until Saturday. The plant employs about 4,000 people, but Amazon does not expect the strike to create a lot of problems, because there is a surplus of employees during the holiday season anyway.
It is not the first time the labour union has asked for a strike: over the past few years, there have been multiple strikes in fact. Its main demands are higher wages and better labour conditions, but the American company continuously states that its wages are already among the highest in the industry.
