0026.json

{
    "date": "2013/05/19",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/amazon-and-other-us-corporations-flout-german-labor-laws-a-900615.html"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "strike"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "pay_and_benefits"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "blue_collar_workers"
    ],
    "description": "Amazon workers at two German facilities (Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig) walked off the job to protest low wages and the company's refusal to sign a collective bargaining agreement for the retail sector. Der Speigel reports that this is the \"first strike in the online retail giant's history\".",
    "locations": [
        "bad hersfeld",
        "leipzig",
        "germany"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "amazon"
    ],
    "workers": null,
    "tags": null,
    "author": "nataliyaned"
}