Posted on 11/28/2025 7:58:39 AM PST by DallasBiff
LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Workers went on strike at Amazon warehouses in Germany on Black Friday aiming to disrupt operations on a key sales day as they push for a collective bargaining agreement, with separate protests also planned outside Zara stores in Spain.
Services union Verdi said around 3,000 workers were expected to participate at Amazon warehouses in Bad Hersfeld, Dortmund, Frankenthal, Graben, Koblenz, Moenchengladbach, Rheinberg, Werne, and Winsen.
Amazon said the strike would have no impact on customer orders and said it paid fair wages. A spokesperson said it has around 40,000 workers at logistics centres in Germany, with an additional 12,000 seasonal workers for the peak festive period.
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Robots never go on strike.
That’s what I thought too.
True.
What percent are Muslim immigrants?
Union thugs can’t be trusted to show up for work. Just a bunch of freaks with no loyalty to those people who employee them. UNIONS SUCK!
“When did Germany have a black friday.”
I was going to write that and there you go! Stole it on your own first reply.
“Black Friday” started as the big sale day the Friday after Thanksgiving. No other nation has a national Thanksgiving holiday on the third Thursday of November. Four or five other nations have a Thanksgiving holiday. Canada has the most structured one like the USA but it’s in October.
Here’s an interesting tidbit I just learned: Norfolk Island (Australia) has a Thanksgiving holiday on the last Wednesday in November! It is a small external territory of Australia and it adopted the American Thanksgiving tradition because of historical American whaling links and later U.S. influence.
But it’s springtime down there and not the end of harvest season!
Adopted, or rather introduced by Amazon et al, like Halloween.
ORDER STUFF ON THE INTERNET——==
NEVER KNOW WHERE IT IS COMING FROM
Like the beer companies gave us “Cinco de Mayo”.
if I were working in a warehouse, I would make the best of the money ... as long as they kept people on the payroll. Soon, the place will be 90 percent robots, with only a few technicians there to repair any robots who become disabled from overwork.
meanwhile, I would be attending the local trade school or community college to learn a saleable skill (possibly involving robotics or maybe auto mechanics or ?)
That must have been an extra-special Thanksgiving for you!
I did not know the Germans had a Thanksgiving celebration. Do they still?
Many cultures had the concept of a “Harvest Festival” to celebrate the harvest, which literally meant surviving the winter.
Yes, but hardly any turned it into a national day of Thanks. And even fewer turned into a shopping orgy the day after the Day of Thanks.
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