Thousands of Amazon employees in the USA want to stop working. The trading group had refused to negotiate. In Germany, a Christmas strike in another industry was averted.

There is no better time for the workers to go on strike, their leverage is great: The US online retailer Amazon is facing a massive strike in the crucial days before Christmas. Thousands of Amazon employees in the USA plan to stop work on Thursday at 6 a.m. local time, shortly before the busiest days of the year, the Teamsters union announced.

On the short message service X (formerly Twitter), the union wrote that the employer Amazon was solely to blame for the strike. In their post, they addressed customers directly: “If your delivery is delayed, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a deadline to sit down with us at the negotiating table and behave decently towards us. They ignored the deadline,” said Teamsters President Sean M. O’Brien.

Amazon threatens to strike in the USA before Christmas shopping