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, @12:58AM (2 children)
Freedom can look like slavery to the Orwellians. It's not.
And I find it interesting how all this posturing comes about merely because I noted a standard observation about trade - that it benefits both parties to the trade. Amazon doesn't have some magic woo that forces people to work for peanuts.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @01:03AM (1 child)
You are right, there is no magic woo about it. They command a large amount of jobs and due to how fucked the world is people will take any job they can get. Very few people have the option of holding out, and as someone else said Amazon pushes out a LOT of small businesses. Local economies tank and amazon pays shit wages.
You are a free market droid with apparently no concept of reality outside your narrow world view.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 23 2018, @01:11AM
People will also take better jobs too. What's interesting here is that you're blaming Amazon for what it helps to fix. Employing half a million people with good paying jobs is definitely making the situation better not worse.