Amazon workers from Spain, Germany and Poland have walked out on strike over demands for better working conditions, choosing to do so on the same date as the retail giant's big promotional push.
Workers demand a fairer conditions[sic] and an increase in salary of 1.5% from Amazon, whose founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' net worth was calculated this week to top $150bn after the company's market valuation hit $888bn.
"The message is clear - while the online giant gets rich, it is saving money on the health of its workers," Germany's Verdi services union said in a statement, following five years in which Amazon has refused to enter into collective wage negotiations over the 16,000 workers employed in the country.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 23 2018, @12:47AM (1 child)
And on the other hand, why is the life style of a few sleepy-town store owners and such worth more than having the benefits of modern society, which happen to include Walmart?
I happen to like that edge when it comes to buying stuff. At least with Walmart, you could have claimed that while the variety of their goods overwhelmed the meager offerings of the sleepy-town stores, it was of lower quality. Can't say that of Amazon which will sell you anything, including better quality stuff that you could get in said town.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 23 2018, @03:24AM
That's so true, Amazon bought Whole Foods. The Whole Foods grocery store. Where my daughter loves to shop. And she's very picky about the quality. I taught her to NEVER SETTLE.
But I hear that Amazon is now 49% of the cyber shopping. Of the websites shopping. And that's a lot. Doesn't sound like a lot but it's almost half. And they have the #AmazonWashingtonPost [twitter.com], they have the @BlueOrigin [twitter.com] which is space rockets. Very hard to compete with a guy that has his own newspaper. And can deliver by rocket!