Video betrays Amazon treated as slaves to their workers Part 1

A few days ago the German public television ARD reported, through a documentary, that conditions of temporary employees of Amazon, recruited from all over Europe for the Christmas season, belittling and absorbent. The BBC reported that the workers were forced to work long hours, which covered up to 15 days without rest, also mentioned that the salary was less than agreed. This report, which can be found on YouTube under the title of "delivered", stars a Spanish immigrant, which has details on the work life of 5000 employees subcontracted by Amazon. In the clip describes the long travel, work night shifts and accommodation in holiday cottages with several strangers. But without doubt, one of the points that attracted media attention and caused controversy, was permanent control over employees by the security personnel, as noted kaosenlared.net is linked with neo-Nazi ideology and practices . These men are in charge of security assigned to the company HESS Security, inevitably and immediately name suggests Rudolf Hess, one of the most trusted men of Adolf Hitler during the Second World War. According to testimonies collected documentary HESS men are characterized by its harassment of workers, cateando their bedrooms and common areas where people live and even the casting of the hostel when indulged in behavior that did not seem suitable. In response, Amazon, in a statement, defended himself saying that recruiting services HESS was not made directly by the company, yet has already begun an investigation, reports BBC. "Although the security company has not been hired by Amazon, of course we are examining the allegations made by the report and take appropriate measures are immediately" Amazon said. It also said he had "zero tolerance for discrimination and intimidation" and he expected the same of all companies with which it works. However, one skilled in the company of German union Verdi, Heiner Reimann, said the company has "a permanent problem" with the status of their contract employees. According to him, the company must look abroad for many who live near logistics centers had bad experiences and do not want to repeat again. This was published ieco.clarin.com The online retail site in Germany has about 7000 permanent employees in 700 logistics centers in the cities of Augsburg, Bad Hersfeld, Leipzig, Rheinberg, Werne, Pforzheim and Koblenz.

• 2013-02-21T19:02:45+00:00
• Duration: 15:00

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