For the Verdi services union, which has been fighting for over a year so that the world leader in online retail improves pay in Germany, this is a serious, unexpected blow. Over 1,000 Amazon employees signed a petition, published on January 6, defending their working conditions and blaming Verdi for damaging their employer’s name. However, Verdi hasn’t changed its mind and announced that its strike movement would escalate in the beginning of the year.
“I don’t need your pity.” According to the management of the American online retail giant, which employs approximately 9,000 people over 9 sorting centers in Germany, in addition to 1,000 employees in its sorting centers in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld, distanced themselves from Verdi’s “objectives, arguments and declarations.”
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