a german trade union called on workers at seven amazon warehouses to go on strike on monday for several days to coincide with the global prime day promotion verdi said it was organising the threeday strike as part of a longrunning battle with the us tech giant in germany over better pay and working conditions the workers in the mail order centres have to cope with the rush of customers and dont get a cent more for the additionally intensified workload said verdi representative orhan akman in a statement germany is amazons biggest market after the united states and the verdi union has been organising strikes at amazon in the country since 2013 to protest low pay and poor conditions advt an amazon spokesperson said the company offers excellent pay and benefits it has said during past calls for strikes over 90 of employees in the logistic centres worked as normal earlier this month amazon said it will guarantee an entrylevel wage at its german warehouses of 12 euros 1425 an hour from july which will rise to at least 1250 euros per hour from autumn 2022 amazon holds prime day to boost summer sales the memberonly discounts are an important way amazon markets prime a fastshipping and mediastreaming service that incentivises subscribers to do more shopping on amazon reuters published on jun 22 2021 at 0754 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app amazon workers amazon strike germany union prime day homenewsgerman union calls for amazon workers to strike on prime day