Amazon workers in Germany strike again in protracted pay dispute
Credit: Reuters/Tobias Schwarz
A worker handles items for delivery at Amazon's new distribution center in Brieselang, near Berlin November 28, 2013.
A spokesman for the Verdi labor union said about 500 of the around 1,200 workers at Amazon's distribution center in Leipzig were expected to strike.
Amazon employs a total of 9,000 warehouse staff at nine distribution centers in Germany - its second biggest market after the United States - plus 14,000 seasonal workers.
Three of Amazon's German logistic centers were hit by a stoppages in the run-up to Christmas, although the company said deliveries were not affected.
Verdi wants Amazon to raise pay for workers at its German distribution centers in accordance with collective bargaining agreements for the mail order and retail industry.
However, Amazon has rejected the demand, arguing that it regards warehouse staff as logistics workers and says they receive above-average pay by the standards of that industry.
(Reporting by Matthias Inverardi; Writing by Emma Thomasson; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
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