They will take advantage of one of the most parcel-moving days each year to expose the insecurity of the employees of these two companies.
Euskaraz irakurri: Cyber Monday eguna baliatuz, greba egingo dute Correoseko eta Euskadiko Amazoneko langileek, egoera salatzeko
As usual, Black Friday will be followed by last Friday cyber monday this Monday, the day of choice for online purchases and one of the days of the year when most packages move. And on that very day they will benefit After Y Basque Country Amazon for the strike with which they want to denounce the situation in both companies.
In the Basque Country, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are already common phenomena. Last year, for example, the Basques spent an average of 250 euros on Black Friday. That’s why both Correos and Amazon Euskadi have opted for the strike tomorrow, Cyber Monday, hoping that greater operational impact and greater media coverage will serve to put more pressure on businesses.
they want address the uncertainty that the workers of these two companies live. In the case of Amazon Euskadi, they demand one own agreement that suits your characteristics. This is how Patricia Medina, head of private services on the LAB’s left bank, explained it in Amazon’s Euskadi Irratia: “We are going on strike to demand our own agreement that adapts to our reality and the characteristics of a logistics station like ours , and above all, to expose job insecurity”.
Urko Canseco, a postal worker and ELA representative, has expressed himself along the same lines. As he has said, his intention is to denounce “the insecurity that has taken over the post office in recent years.” As he explains, “the contracts that are being made now are part-time, with bad hours that hinder family reconciliation, and that has caused us to lose purchasing power in recent years.”
In both the one and the other, they have explained, workers are “fed up” and “burnt out”, in Amazon’s case, of having to work so many weekends, “with the resulting damage to the social and family life”.
Canseco explained that in Correos “for the positions that are not occupied, no one is hired. The offices are the ones that are worse off, the new ones that come in are imposed a four-hour day, but then they are imposed additional hours “, without indicate in advance when and how many hours will be performed.
Both the one and the other do not rule out a new strike day at Christmas if the situation does not change.
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