18 Dec, 2023 @ 16:00
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3 Kings delayed?: Amazon logistics centre staff to strike in Spain’s Basque Country

Amazon strike in Spain: Thousands of workers to walk out nationwide demanding better pay and conditions - threatening delays for Black Friday orders
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THE Three Kings, who traditionally deliver gifts to children in Spain at Epiphany, may be delayed in January – or at least their presents might be.

Workers at a logistics centre in northern Spain that handles thousands of orders for Amazon are planning to go on a three-day strike on January 3,4 and 5, which could hit deliveries of toys destined to be handed out on January 6 – Three Kings Day.

This is when children in Spain traditionally receive their Christmas gifts.

Amazon strike in Spain: Thousands of workers to walk out nationwide demanding better pay and conditions - threatening delays for Black Friday orders
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According to trade union LAB, some 160 workers at the Trapagaran centre in the Basque country are demanding higher wages.

The centre handles deliveries in the Basque Country and parts of Burgos and Cantabria.

LAB union leader Gotzon Mardarats said: “We want wage increases in line with inflation. Pay rises that are higher than the 3% per year forecast until 2025.”

Workers at the centre have already walked out over the course of the past weekend. Around 20,000 parcels have been delayed through the industrial action, with the stoppage lasting frommidnight on Saturday and lasting throughout Monday, according to Mardarats.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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