The second day of athree - day strikeby Amazon warehouse workers near Madrid cooccur with the eastward - DoC heavyweight ’s Prime Day promotion step up significantly on Tuesday , with swop unions tellingSpanish newspaper Públicothat police in bacchanalia gear had charge the strikers multiple time on supposed grounds they were draw a blank traffic . Police arrested at least two participant in the protest , with one doer allegedly come to in the nerve with a truncheon and losing tooth as a answer .
One photo partake by Alberto Rodriguez , a appendage of Spain ’s Congress of Deputies , appear to show a parentage - soaked shirt in front of the Amazon warehouse in Madrid state ’s San Fernando de Henares municipality .
Este es el respeto de@AmazonESP@amazoncon sus trabajadores y trabajadoras .
Que lo sepa todo el mundo.#HuelgaAmazonpic.twitter.com / O6BgyjjlDW
— Alberto Rodríguez ( @Alber_Canarias)July 17 , 2018
video swag by Público appear to capture at least one beating by police .
Segunda jornada de la#HuelgaAmazon . Carga policíal en San Fernando de Henares . Vídeo de@josefinamar14.pic.twitter.com/HaWRCZoCIr
— CTXT ( @ctxt_es)July 17 , 2018
La policía carga contra los trabajadores de@AmazonEnLuchaimpiendo su derecho constitucional a la huelga.@AmazonESPno cumple el convenio y tributa en Luxemburgo , pero los golpes se los llevan las y los de siempre …
Vergüenza.#HuelgaAmazonpic.twitter.com / MxOx5iPYby
‼️Golpear a los y las trabajadoras de@AmazonEnLuchaque ejercen su derecho constitucional de Huelga no es lo que se espera de un día en el que se reivindica el cumpliendo del convenio laboral que@AmazonESPincumple‼️#HuelgaAmazonpic.twitter.com / zSax2cTTTv
— Ana Marcello ( @anamarcelloana)July 17 , 2018
A un piquete pacífico en#HuelgaAmazonse responde con detenciones y golpes de porra.@FSCdeCCOOcondena enérgicamente estas prácticas intolerables que no se corresponden con una democracia formal . El derecho de huelga es constitucional , una conquista social#ElMomentoEsAhorapic.twitter.com / NFQUChzHc4
— Pepe Fernández ( @pepefdezr)July 17 , 2018
The doer at the Madrid facility , nearly one-half of whom are temps , hadpreviously gone on strikein March . This week , they are demonstrating not only against what they said were grueling work precondition , scurvy compensation , and conditions come in on clip off , but the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement in 2016 that Amazon has admit advantage of to break off away at previous stage of benefit , allot to the Financial Times .
Público wrote that other than the actions of police , labor union representatives said the protestation was peaceful . According toEl Diario , unification delegate Douglas Harper contested police accounts of organized attempts to freeze dealings and say that the charges begin after a charwoman , a minor , that was with the strikers give the pavement onto the road .
Público added that the demonstrations seem to have significantly cut down on Amazon ’s ability to fulfill dispatch from the warehouse . According to theWashington Post , labor organizers say 96 pct of the warehouse ’s workforce joined the hit , while the Financial Times cover the Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras union ( Spain ’s largest ) said that only 80 workers of the 1,400 in Madrid were leave alone at their post on Monday during the Prime Day furtherance . Amazon contend those shape , telling both paper that a legal age of workers opted to continue working .
agree to the Financial Times , alike strikes in Germany see some 2,500 to 3,000 “ of the company ’s 16,000 prole in its expectant market outside the US ” manner of walking out on Monday , per figure provided by services union Verdi . However , Amazon similarly disputed those bit .
As the Amazon proletarian in Spain , Germany , and another age group in Poland conk out on strike this week , CEO Jeff Bezos ascended to the rank ofwealthiest man in recorded modern history .
Update 7/18/18 10:47am ET : With avail from our confrere Carlos Zuhamensky at our Spanish - lyric outgrowth Gizmodo ES , we were able-bodied to speak with Juan Manuel Rosado , a spokesperson for the CSIT matrimony in the Amazon Company Workers Committee about yesterday ’s violent clash . His words have been transcribed and translate by Zuhamensky .
“ The police charged at the Bill Gates of the Mad4 Center . There was n’t any irritation from the strikers , but they charge anyway to evict the actor reunite at the threshold , ” Rosado order . “ Several suffered minor injuries as a result of the charge , and one was hit in the face and has some broken dentition . Three of them were also nab but released shortly after with no cathexis . ”
In answer , a voice for Amazon Spain provided Gizmodo with the pursuit , remarkably note - deaf statement : “ At Amazon , the safety machine of our team is our number one priority and we greatly apprize the efforts of the authorities to ensure everyone ’s safety machine . ”
Rosado went on to accuse Amazon of diverting work from MAD4 to a unexampled facility in Barcelona which has no unification presence or workers ’ citizens committee , moves he believes ache the rap efforts . Still , the Leslie Townes Hope for serious conditions did n’t terminate with this Pride Day action . “ There are several trials that will begin in September . CSIT process Amazon for what we think is acting in regretful faith trying to bring down a unilateral collective contract bridge , ” he allege .
Additional reporting by Carlos Zuhamensky
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