Amazon faces 'biggest strike in Europe' this week
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 @ 1:12 AM
ONLINE retail giant Amazon is facing its first possible strike in Spain and what will be the company's largest in Europe to date.
The store, which started out life as an internet-based book, record and video shop and has now branched out into clothing, cosmetics, electronics and even food, has only had its own division in Spain since 2011 and, since then, it has opened three huge logistics centres in the country – one each in El Prat de Llobregat and Martorelles (Barcelona province) and one in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid).
The Madrid delivery centre, the first of the two to open, employs 1,100 people on permanent contracts and a further 900 temporary workers, all of whom have been called by their union to join a 48-hour strike over Wednesday and Thursday this week (March 21 and 22).
Staff representatives say Amazon is trying to force a new logistics industry-wide working conditions agreement on them, substituting the existing one which was unique to the firm, and which will lead to a reduction in their rights.
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