The employees at Bad Hersfield and Leipzig centres at Germany of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) staged a walkout, the first of its kind in the Internet Retailer’s history. The services employees union ver.di reported that the employees were demanding an increase of their wages at par with the industrial salary agreements rather than on an Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) based pay scale.
Increase in wages
The early shift employees of the company totalling around 850, staged the walkout which was expected to increase when the other shift employees returned to work. However, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) was confident that the global customer deliveries would remain unaffected as the company had a total of 8 order fulfilment centres.
The services employees union ver.di reported that the payments at none of Germany centres of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) were in line with the industry wages. However, the company ascertained that the Amazon employees were getting paid off far much better than their peers in other companies.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) also reiterated that its employees were getting paid at the upper end of the pay scale compared to other logistics companies. Further, the company also reported that it had engaged in many negotiations with the representatives of the services employees to reach an agreement, but in vain.
Ver.di, the services employees union on the other hand, ascertained that the employees at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) were claiming only a marginal increase to reach EUR 10.66 per hour at the Leipzig centre and EUR 12.18 per hour at the Hesse centre of Germany.
