Approximately 400 employees from the early and late shift shed their work yesterday. They call for the application of the collective agreement for retail and mail-order business. Amazon declines: We are logisticians.

 

Verdi-Gelb, not Amazon-Orange: instead of going over in the color-coded safety vests of their employer, many Amazon employees prefer to slip into the yellow waistcoat of the service union. The first at half past five in the morning: With the beginning of the early shift, Verdi had increased the pressure on the Internet retailer and called for a strike in Sheinberg. The goal: Amazon should be no longer orientating in the payment of its workforce, but rather to orient logistics industry, but at the collective bargaining agreement of the retail and mail-order trade.

 

This was also seen by the “Amazon” in Sheinberg, who yesterday set up on the walkway at the logistics center and opposite the red Verdi tent. For the whole day, the trade union should have been over 400. Buses brought them and the part-time workers, who were scheduled to come to work at 8 o’clock, later to the trade fair. There Verdi had rented the foyer and made a strike. Sure is safe – it could also have twine. A roof overhead already offered security, for example, to fill strike lists or applications for admission: “We already have more than 100 new admissions today,” said Sabine Busch, the trade union secretary.

 

With Tim Schmidt, Amazon Chairman of the Works Council and Verdi member, as well as the department manager, Silken Zimmer, he was one of the speakers who once again made it clear to the strikers: “We want to bring Amazon to talks at all.”

In the afternoon, the arguments were put forward again: Then strikes of the late-stage met in the foyer of the fair. Her colleagues with reflective vest in the shelter had previously received her at the logistics center: unmistakable, with whistles, samba drums and rattles. How the work continues in the next days, weeks or even months? Verdi did not want to look into the cards: “We must still be able to increase the pressure,” says Silken Zimmer. Karin Walk, DGB chairman from Sheinberg, was confident about a visit by the strikers: “Here too, we will finally get through unions and the workforce.

 

An Amazon spokesman stressed yesterday that the workloads would have no effect on shipping to customers. Amazons logistics centers are not stores, in which customers come but warehouse. The employees there were logisticians, not retailers. Employees in the logistics centers did typical logistics work – not just for Amazon, but also for retailers using the Amazon platforms. In this respect, there is no basis for the trade union requirement to apply the retail tariff. In addition, yesterday’s large majority of Amazon employees in yellow vest worked regularly and showed that they saw the company as a fair and responsible employer.