Amazon is hosting its two days Prime Day sale, probably the biggest sale of the year, which started on Monday 15th July, but amid this biggest shopping discount extravaganza, many of its employees have gone on strike. As soon, the sale started, the Amazon workers from Germany started their strike against the company with the motto, “No more discounts on our incomes”.
There has been always an issue for the Amazon workers on the wages the company offers them. According to the employees, the company offers new discounts and free deliveries to its customers by cutting off their salaries, and they can no more handle this. These workers from Germany had already announced that they will stop working during the Amazon Prime Day sale, and employees from the two distribution centres in Bad Hersfeld, as well as sites in Werne, Rheinberg, Leipzig, Graben and Koblenz, went on strike on the same day the sale started.
“We know Prime Day is a big day for Amazon, so we hope this strike will help executives understand how serious we are about wanting real change that will uplift the workers in Amazon’s warehouses,” striker Safiyo Mohamed said in a release.
According to another striker, over 2000 Amazon workers went on the strike on the first day of the sale. But Amazon being aware of the strike to take place on its very important day had said that the strike won’t affect the operations of the sale. In fact, on Monday, the company even made the announcement that it will create another 1,000 jobs in Poland. This announcement by the company also reflected double salary for its Poland workers.
This is not the first time that Amazon workers are on strike, in fact, last year there were over 50 strikes in Europe only. Employees from some of the other countries also took part in those strikes. And, in April this year, the representatives of the worker union of 15 countries had a meeting in Berlin concerning the same issue.
Along with Germany, this time the employees from Minnesota, U.S. also joined the strike during the first six hours of the sale. The Amazon workers from the UK also had planned to strike during the sale.
Along with the low wages, the employees often complain about how the company treats them at their workplace. But as the company had already claimed that the Prime Day sale won’t get affected by the strike, the company still does not seem to be doing anything for the employees. Amazon has clearly said that it won’t be accepting the demands of the employees who have gone on the strike.
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