MANNHEIM, Germany - Every half an hour, 50 vans sweep into Amazon’s distribution center in Mannheim, Germany and sweep out again with up to 200 parcels and a precise delivery plan in each.
Raising salaries could help attract more drivers, Ahmad said: “But at the current rates we have, it’s not easy to solve this problem.” “The days were difficult: hard labor in every sense of the word,” said one of them, Ihsan Hardan, a 35-year-old father of four from Syria who spent seven months delivering parcels for a subcontractor driving for Amazon until he quit in May.
The other two major logistics companies in Germany which both deliver for Amazon - Deutsche Post DHL and Hermes - have both hiked prices for parcel deliveries in the last year - citing the need to pay more to attract drivers.Melanie Kreis, finance chief of Deutsche Post DHL, said recently that few delivery staff are prepared to work for the German minimum wage of 9.19 euros per hour. DHL pays its employee drivers at least 13.37 euros per hour.
Biz Why, because Amazon pay slave wages.
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Biz Because they do not provide jobs that pays a decent wage with benefits and job security. Or safety regulations.
Biz not surprising it only take a coupe of days on the road to see all the bullshite they state & claim in their training rooms are not all it made out to be ?
Biz Solution...just pay more and decent salaries, where people could actually meet ends. But naaaah....that's way on the left side. Non in neocapitalistic, greedy ethos, right?
Biz Amazon divers are modern slaves.
Biz Thats what free markets are for. High demand and low supply should drive up price. Look how many government fingers are stuck into this issue. They break free markets.
Biz So the migrants are asking for more. They have discovered they can use the liberties they never had against the ones that gave it to them.
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Amazon is going to abuse those workers in its delivery services as long as it can, and then Amazon will toss them all aside by using drones and self-driving trucks.