Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany

[Lord Testicles]

Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in Germany as the online shopping giant faced claims that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi connections to intimidate its foreign workers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-neo-nazi-guards-to-keep-immigrant-workforce-under-control-in-germany-8495843.html

[Armchair Partisan]

This story seems familiar...


Thursday 14 February 2013

Yep, thought so. They ended up dismissing HESS Security a few days later, and everyone could pretend that all the problems of Amazon's workers were over.

[PikSmeet]

This story seems familiar...



Yep, thought so. They ended up dismissing HESS Security a few days later, and everyone could pretend that all the problems of Amazon's workers were over.

As long as capitalism remains they'll always have problems.
Reminds me of what went on in East Germany, there they used political prisoners.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/nov/16/ikea-regrets-forced-labour-germany

[The Intransigent Faction]

As long as capitalism remains they'll always have problems.
Reminds me of what went on in East Germany, there they used political prisoners.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/nov/16/ikea-regrets-forced-labour-germany

East Germany used neo-Nazis to police their workforce? I thought most of them were in West Germany, or sheltered elsewhere by the West.

[PikSmeet]

East Germany used neo-Nazis to police their workforce? I thought most of them were in West Germany, or sheltered elsewhere by the West.

Prison officers in the Iron Curtain were Marxist radicals?
I never said East Germany used neo-Nazis but a lot of Nazi scientists were sheltered in the East too, how else do you think the USSR developed the bomb?

[Lord Testicles]

Prison officers in the Iron Curtain were Marxist radicals?


You shouldn't answer a question with a question.


I never said East Germany used neo-Nazis but a lot of Nazi scientists were sheltered in the East too, how else do you think the USSR developed the bomb?

That's different from how West Germany sheltered and employed "former" Nazi's and SS officers like Reinhard Gehlen. For all it's faults, I think you'll be hard pressed to find an example of an SS officer holding a position of power in the USSR.

[KaneLives]

Yet another report of Amazon treating their workers like shit. Not suprising. The sad thing is there are many other businesses who are just as bad if not worse.