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Germany’s Amazon workers reject ‘logistics’ label and demand more pay
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Employees of online retailer Amazon are on strike in the German town of Bad Hersfeld and the city of Leipzig.
When balloted by labour union ver.di in April, 97 percent of the company’s 9,000 workers in Germany voted in favour of industrial action.
Employees are arguing their wages should be in line with what’s paid in Germany’s retail sector, rather than the lower pay common in the logistics sector, which is what they currently receive.
Amazon maintains the workers are primarily doing a logistics job by packing and mailing. The company says it pays on the upper end of that scale.
“The strike is happening for a lot of reasons. It’s about working conditions here, which need to be improved. The salaries we’re paid don’t correspond with what we’re entitled to. We had a considerable impact on setting this up and we receive very little,” said Amazon employee Markus Herd.
An agreement may not be reached anytime soon, according to ver.di representative Heiner Reimann, who said:
“We’re counting on a dispute that could last for a while. Amazon, so far, has shown that they are unwilling to negotiate. They are willing to talk, but unwilling to actually negotiate. So we are preparing for open-ended industrial action,” Reimann said.
Germany is Amazon’s second biggest market behind the US, and just ahead of the UK and Japan.
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Cancer scare causes Angelina Jolie to have double mastectomy
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Angelina Jolie has revealed she has undergone a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery.
The Oscar-winning actress made the decision to have both breasts removed as a preventative measure after discovering she had an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer.
Tests revealed Jolie carries the defective gene, BRCA1, which significantly increases her risk of developing ovarian and breast cancer – the disease that killed her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, at the age of 56.
Carriers of the defective gene have, on average, a 65 percent chance of eventually suffering from breast cancer. Following three months of procedures, the chances of the actress developing breast cancer has fallen to five percent.
Jolie, who is also a Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, says she has gone public is an effort to raise awareness for testing – though she acknowledges many in the US would not be able to afford the test or the treatment.
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Cyprus banking reforms praised by EU ministers
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Efforts by cash-strapped Cyprus to restructure its banking systems have been praised at a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers in Brussels. The island has now received the first part of a rescue loan.
Debt-ridden Greece was told it needs to speed up its reforms.
“Greece needs to fully implement the agreed measures to improve tax collection in order to ensure a fairer distribution of the adjustment,” said Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Eurogroup President.
“Secondly, the necessary measures should be implemented to the liberalisation of closed professions and to enhance competition in products and service markets.”
Meanwhile on Monday, Spain and Portugal called for for the eurozone to complete a banking union. Many believe it is needed to restore investor confidence.
“We have made significant progress on the work to design the rules for direct banking recapitalisation by the European Stability Mechanism. We now need to work intensively to conclude an agreement by next month,” said Olli Rehn, EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs.
Many believe a banking union is needed to restore investor confidence.
Euronews reporter Isabel Marques da Silva, in Brussels, said: “The discussions on banking union and macroeconomic imbalances of 13 countries will resume at a meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
“But that meeting will be dominated by measures against fraud and tax evasion, which should be approved at the next EU summit later this month.”
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Italy: six-year jail term demanded at Berlusconi sex trial
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Italian prosecutors have called for Silvio Berlusconi to be given a six-year jail sentence and a lifetime ban on holding public office at his latest court trial.
The former prime minister and centre-right leader is accused of paying for sex with Karima El Mahroug – better known as “Ruby the Heartstealer” – when she was under 18.
He is also alleged to have abused his power of office by pressing for her to be released when she was held by police on theft charges.
‘‘The closing arguments of public prosecutor Boccassini are surreal. They’re based on the destruction of all evidence that shows Berlusconi’s innocence,” said Anna Maria Bernini, from Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party.
Massimo D’Alema, from Italy’s Democratic Party, commented: ‘‘I don’t think that the future of the government should depend on these court verdicts – and the other verdicts that perhaps will come.”
Berlusconi, 76, allegedly paid for sex with El Mahroug during the now notorius “bunga bunga” parties. They both deny the allegations.
The sentencing demands come after Berlusconi lost an appeal against a four-year sentence for tax fraud.
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