One 24 hour strike for the first time in Italy by workers Amazon that from this morning at 7 and until tomorrow morning at the same time they crossed their arms to protest against the breakdown of negotiations at national level on the renewal of the second level contract. “For a day we want to stop, we have to stop – they announced through the trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti – it is a question of respect for work, dignity of workers, safety for them and for you. For this reason, to win this battle for justice and civilization, we need the solidarity of all customers and all customers of Amazon “.
The workers in the hubs and warehouses who called on them, on the customers to support the workers’ strike, went on strike. “You who receive a service are the people to whom we ask for attention and solidarity, so that it continues to be carried out in the best possible way”, reads the note from the trade unions. Among the union demands at the basis of the strike, Cgil and Filt explain, “the verification of the loads and work rates imposed, the verification and bargaining of work shifts, the reduction of the working hours of drivers, the social clause and continuity of employment for all in the event of a contract change or supplier change, the stabilization of fixed times and of temporary workers and compliance with health and safety regulations “.
Amazon strike: 75 percent subscriptions
The same unions have communicated that to join the strike was the 75 percent of employees, “with peaks of 90% in some areas”: now they expect one “in a very short time” convocation by the company. “It’s a protest successful – they explain – even beyond our expectations considering that many workers and many workers feel ‘blackmail’ because they have atypical contracts and therefore have seen the protest as a risk for their precarious job “.
The unions reiterated the reasons of the protest: “Amazon has grown enormously thanks to the boom in online commerce in times of pandemic and it is right that it redistributes some of this wealth also in terms of rights to his employees. To date, the company has always refused to discuss with the trade unions the verification of the shifts, the loads and the work rhythms imposed, the reduction of the working hours of the drivers, the social clause and the continuity of employment for all in case of change of contract or supplier change, stabilization of fixed times and temporary workers and compliance with health and safety regulations “.
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