BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of workers at Amazon.com in Germanyhave walked off the job in an effort to
put pressure on the Americanonline retailer in the busy days before Christmas to settle on a newwage
agreement.The ver.di union said Monday that several hundredworkers were staging one-day warning strikes at
Amazon logistics centersin Leipzig, Bad Hersfeld and Graben.Ver.di says German workerswill also picket with
American colleagues outside the Amazonheadquarters in Seattle to press their demands.The union saysAmazon
workers receive lower wages than others in retail and mail-orderjobs. Amazon says its distribution
warehouses in Germany are logisticscenters and employees are already paid on the upper end of what workersin
that industry earn.Amazon has about 9,000 fulltime employees in Germany.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
All rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.BERLIN (AP) —
Hundreds of workers at Amazon.com in Germanyhave walked off the job in an effort to put pressure on the
Americanonline retailer in the busy days before Christmas to settle on a newwage agreement.The ver.di union
said Monday that several hundredworkers were staging one-day warning strikes at Amazon logistics centersin
Leipzig, Bad Hersfeld and Graben.Ver.di says German workerswill also picket with American colleagues outside
the Amazonheadquarters in Seattle to press their demands.The union saysAmazon workers receive lower wages
than others in retail and mail-orderjobs. Amazon says its distribution warehouses in Germany are
logisticscenters and employees are already paid on the upper end of what workersin that industry earn.Amazon
has about 9,000 fulltime employees in Germany.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.