"Amazon vendor’s workers protest over unpaid 3 months unpaid salaries"

Hundreds of third party vendor employees working at the warehouse of e-commerce giant Amazon at Katraj staged a one-day protest at site on Monday to protest against the company and the vendor for allegedly failing to comply with an agreement of a 30 per cent wage hike and not paying workers for the last three months.

In October last year, Amazon had signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the first time in India with the warehouse workers ... The agitating employees are employed by Vaishali Transcarrier Private Limited, who in turn is a sub contractor for Amazon.

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General Secretary Gorakh Mengde said that most of these workers have been working for the past 9 to 10 years and are members of the Hamal Panchayat and Mathadi Board, yet their wages have been pending for the last three to four months.

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A representative of Vaishali Transcarrier Private Limited, the subcontractor, visited the protest site and assured workers that their demands would be met.

Amazon, the principal employer, has released the statement that states, “Our Supply Chain Standards require all suppliers and third-party service providers to pay their workers, including contract workers, in a timely manner and provide compensation that meets or exceeds applicable laws. While Amazon is not directly responsible for the compensation of our partners’ employees, we take these matters seriously as they impact people working in our facilities. We are actively investigating the situation and are in contact with the concerned service provider to resolve this issue at the earliest.”