Amazon Workers in Germany to Go on Strike Over Coronavirus Infections

Laborers at six Amazon locales in Germany will take to the streets on Monday in fight over security after some staff at coordinations focuses tried positive for coronavirus, trade guild Verdi said. Verdi said on Sunday that the strike would last at any rate 48 hours, under the saying 'Great and sound work', to reprimand what it called an absence of straightforwardness by the US retail mammoth after specialists tried positive for COVID-19. 

"We have data that at any rate 30 to 40 associates were contaminated," said Verdi delegate Orhan Akman. 

Amazon has confronted a long-running fight with associations in Germany over better compensation and conditions for coordinations laborers, who have arranged incessant strikes since 2013. 

Verdi said the strikes will hit Amazon locales in Leipzig, Bad Hersfeld, Rheinberg, Werne, and Koblenz. It said Amazon was putting benefit in front of the wellbeing of its laborers. 

Amazon dismissed the allegations in an announcement and said that as of June it had contributed $4 billion (generally Rs. 30,227 crores) on measures to shield its worldwide workforce and customers from the danger of COVID-19 contaminations. 

In Germany, its greatest market after the United States, Amazon has since February requested 470 million hand sterilization bottles, 21 million sets of gloves, 19 million covers, and other face assurance gear and 39 million boxes of disinfectant wipes, a representative for Amazon in Germany said.