Amazon Employees Strike Again For Salary Increase

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A spokesman for the German Verdi Trade Union (P) said that about 500 people from the Leipzig (Leipzig) logistics center took part in the strike action.

The logistics centre has a total of about 1200 employees.

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< p > Amazon has 9 warehouses in Germany, with 9000 warehousing staff and 14 thousand seasonal temporary employees.

Because of the salary problem, Amazon has been on strike in Germany last December in the 3 a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" logistics center /a.

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< p > Verdi union said at that time, up to 700 employees had joined the strike activities of "a" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > Amazon "/a" bade Hales Field (Bad Hersfeld) logistics center, and Leipzig (Leipzig) logistics center had 500 employees to participate in 600, and 600 employees participated in the logistics center.

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< p > Verdi Union hopes that Amazon German employees will be able to earn salaries equal to those of retail and mail order employees.

In Germany, employees in the retail and mail order industry earn more than the logistics staff, while Amazon lists most of the employees in Germany as logistics workers.

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< p > Amazon spokesman said the salary level of employees in Amazon Germany will be close to the upper limit of salary standard in German logistics industry.

The spokesman also said that in order to solve the concerns of the logistics center staff, Amazon will consult with the trade union.

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Unlike P, Amazon is more dependent on manual labor and monotonous duplication. With the increasing scale of the company, the expectations of customers are higher and higher, and the pressure on workers is also increasing. Therefore, the hidden factors of instability are more and more obvious.

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In the early twenty-first Century, Amazon set up its own order management system in P, which shocked the industry.

Brad stone described the system in detail in the the everything store. Amazon did not follow the customary warehouse organizing method to put the products with high purchase frequency together, but developed an algorithm to guide workers to pick up goods on seemingly random routes.

Facts have proved that Amazon's practice greatly reduces the picking time.

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Redesigning P warehouse shows Amazon's self-awareness, making it no longer a simple retailer, but more of a technology company.

However, no matter how complex the order and distribution system of Amazon is, it will ultimately depend on manpower to pick up goods from shelves.

For example, in the past Christmas shopping season, Amazon hired 70 thousand temporary warehouse workers to cope with the peak of orders.

No matter how clever the warehouse algorithm is, the bottleneck lies in the efficiency of the workers.

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< p > the special demand for human labor is the difference between Amazon and other technology giants such as Google and Facebook.

Other technology companies are looking for ways to spend money on the best software engineers, and Amazon, in addition to technology, relies on a large number of ordinary workers.

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< p > Apple Corp has outsourced its main business on a large scale, because the closer it is to customers, the faster delivery of orders to more customers.

However, Amazon's main business is online retailing, and outsourcing is unlikely.

As a result, all the discontent and conflict of Amazon are displayed in front of US consumers, because this is Amazon's base camp.

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On the issue of trade unions, Amazon spokesman said, "Amazon's corporate culture and business models are based on rapid innovation, flexibility and good communication between managers and employees." P

Therefore, the existence of trade unions is not necessary.

Once the trade union is established, Amazon must give explicit provisions in terms of workers' vacations and promotions, so that the elasticity will be lost.

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