Workers protest against award for Amazon boss Bezos

This 21 April 2018 German video is about protests against Amazon boss Jeff Bezos getting an award.

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Germany: Workers protest against an award ceremony in honour of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos

Germany’s largest trade union ver.di held the protest to highlight the company’s working conditions

GERMAN trade unionists protested at a Berlin award ceremony last night to highlight the conditions of Amazon workers.

Members of ver.di, Germany’s largest trade union, picketed the Axel Springer offices

From the 1960s till this decade, the Axel Springer media corporation, including the sensationalist Bildzeitung daily, has played an obnoxious right-wing role in Gerrmany. From inspiring the murder of 1960s student activist Rudi Dutschke till recent fake news about supposed sex crimes by refugees.

where “An Evening with Jeff Bezos” was held in honour of the Amazon boss.

Union spokeswoman Stefanie Nutzberger said they wanted to give Mr Bezos “feedback from the employees” that work for Amazon in Germany, where ver.di has been fighting to secure trade union recognition.

“Amazon employees want to make it clear that having a good job with good people means better working conditions and collective bargaining”, she said.

Ver.di accused the company of an anti-union attitude with Mr Bezos refusing “social partnership co-operation” in its operations across the world.

Last week, the Spanish CGT union hit out after Amazon sacked 100 temporary workers after strike action at the company’s largest site in the country.

Mr Bezos was handed the Axel Springer award which is given to “outstanding personalities who are exceptionally innovative.”

However, Ms Nutzberger said: “What that has to do with social responsibility is beyond me. A personality that does not respect employees deserves no award.

“Innovation must also have a human face, and the expansion of a global monopoly does not deserve the term innovation.”

They were joined in the protest by the Make Amazon Pay coalition which includes Germany’s Die Linke party.

Campaign spokeswoman Maria Raschke said: “Amazon is a dystopian model for the future, from its customers’ data loss, its anti-union attitudes, to tax avoidance strategies, so it’s all the more gratifying that we’ll be able to put several critics of this model on the road together to support the struggle of the employees at Amazon.”

Workers’ Rights: Amazon accused of treating workers ‘like robots’: here.

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