Union organizers are launching a worldwide campaign to improve wages and working conditions at Amazon.com in time for the holidays.

Union organizers turned up the temperature on Amazon.com (the online retailer) launching a campaign directed at improving wages and working conditions at Amazon's distribution centers.

The worldwide campaign, backed by the Prewitt Organizing Fund, an independent union-recruiting group based in Washington, D.C., is seeking union representation for some 5,000 workers in Amazon's distribution centers throughout the U.S., as well as in France and Germany.

With the company's performance under scrutiny from Wall Street and the upcoming holiday season their could be no better time to launch a worldwide campaign.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos claims that while unions have a role in society, they are not needed at Amazon. Bezos also said Amazon employees are given opportunities to bring up grievances with management.

Organizers say they are targeting Amazon because of the company's stature as a model for online retailing.

Fraternally,

Mark Caruso