amazonstrikeAmazon warehouse workers in Germany are voicing their concern again over wages, with 2,000 workers walking off the job at five of Amazon’s distribution centers starting with Monday’s early shift and ending with Tuesday’s late shift.

The strikes are the latest — and now largest yet — organized by German labor union Ver.di, which is calling for Amazon to increase pay that aligns with Germany’s retail wage agreement. This is the third Ver.di strike of 2014.

Amazon, which employs 9,000 in Germany, contends that its fulfillment centers are “logistics companies that fulfill customer orders,” rather than retail stores with customers. Here’s what the company told us after a Ver.di protest in March:

“Our employees earn toward the upper end of the pay scale compared to other logistics companies. The entry wage for an Amazon employees in Germany is 9.55 euros an hour, plus bonus, insurance and pension pay. After one year employees earn more than ten euros, and after two years, employees get shares in the company. Therefore we see no benefit in a tariff agreement for customers or associates.”

Ver.di also put on a demonstration at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters just before Christmas last year. At the time, it addressed Amazon’s “practice of constant monitoring of workers,” and “unreasonable metrics that workers find impossible to meet,” in addition to unfair pay.

An Amazon spokesperson told The New York Times that the strikes did not impact Amazon’s deliveries. Germany is Amazon’s second-biggest market behind the U.S.

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