BERLIN (Reuters) - German trade union Verdi on Sunday called on workers at a German Amazon warehouse to strike for the second time in a week to disrupt the processing of orders after the “Black Friday” discount shopping sales on November 27.
Verdi said the strike was due to begin on Monday night and end at the end of Tuesday night, following a three-day strike from Thursday to Saturday last week involving more than 500 workers.
Verdi had previously called on workers at seven Amazon warehouses in Germany to hold a three-day strike. The expected strike would coincide with the "Black Friday" discount shopping promotion day on November 27.
Verdi reportedly seeks to increase wages and improve working conditions for Amazon workers, while calling on Amazon to institute adequate protections for workers during the pandemic.
According to CNBC, German Amazon employees had previously launched a strike during Amazon's global promotion event "Prime Day" in October.
The strike is also part of the union's long-term struggle with Amazon's German branch over better pay and working conditions. The union also pointed out that the epidemic bonus that Amazon's German branch planned to pay to workers in March this year was canceled again in May.
It is worth noting that Amazon recently announced that it will pay a one-time bonus of US$500 million (approximately RMB 3.2 billion) to front-line employees working from December 1 to December 31. Together with the $500 million bonus in June, the company will pay a total of $2.5 billion this year in "special bonuses and incentives" to employees worldwide.
