LAB describes the strike at Amazon as “successful”, which has not been able to distribute 60,000 packages

Euskaraz irakurri: LABek “arrakastatzat” jo du Amazoneko greba, multinationalak 60,000 package banatu ezin izan dituelako

The LAB union has affirmed that, for the second consecutive day, the strike called at the Amazon facilities in Valle de Trápaga (Bizkaia) has been “a complete success” and “it has not been able to distribute the 60,000 packages that it had planned to distribute in these Christmas dates”.

In a statement, LAB has stated that “in the face of the success and great follow-up to the strike, the response of Amazon and the Basque Government (PNV and PSOE) has been the same as always: send the Ertzaintza to repress the workers who have supported the strike”.

Thus, he has denounced that the Ertzaintza has “charged in a completely disproportionate way by beating and shoving, leaving three injured strikers in their wake, who have had to go to the emergency room.”

Ertzaintzaren kolpeen ondorioz hiru zauritu gaur Amazoneko greba egunean:#borrokasindikalaaurrera #AmazonBorrokan https://t.co/I2GE8xBhh7 https://t.co/kblzEb7cPe

— LAB SINDIKATUA (@LABsindikatua) December 23, 2022

For its part, the Security Department has explained that about 40 people were part of a picket that prevented the access of the vans to the Amazon distribution center, some of which have tried to skip the police cordon, for which they have been identified.

ELA has also joined the strike called by LAB in defense of decent working conditions. With today’s there are already four days of strike in said center in recent months. In fact, LAB has highlighted in a statement that the strike on October 17 and the strike on November 28 were “a resounding success of participation”, and according to what they have published on social networks, this is how the days of yesterday and today.

Today we have not only stopped the production of Amazon. Today we have taken our demands to the streets.

We want decent working conditions at Amazon.

Amazon on strike!! Borroka da bide bakarra!! pic.twitter.com/5emVu5BWY2

— LAB Ezkerraldea (@LEzkerraldea) December 22, 2022

LAB He has denounced that an agreement is applied to the staff that “does not adapt at all to the characteristics of their work”. Currently, the sectoral Collective Agreement for the transport of goods by road in Bizkaia is applied to the workforce. In addition, in the logistics center of Valle de Trápaga there are more than 300 delivery men from different subcontractors to whom the State Collective Messaging Agreement applies. The workers on strike demand their own agreement that includes different demands: salary revision, rearrangement of work shifts and days, adaptation of professional categories, etc.

The center has indicated that “job insecurity is rampant in Amazon Trapagaran”, and the casualties, which are “numerous and long-term”, are covered “through” temporary employment agencies.

He has also ensured that “the control of the staff through applications increases the level of stress and consequently, work accidents, and forces them to work to the limit”.

ELA, for its part, has joined the collective of Amazon workers in their fight for an agreement and encourages the Amazon workforce in the Trápaga Valley to join the strike.