Amazon [has been] facing strikes at warehouses in Germany, its second-biggest market. Unions there say the company has imported American-style business practices — in particular, an antipathy to organized labor — that stand at odds with European norms...Amazon has been criticized for its working conditions in the United States — but not nearly to the same extent as in Europe... Thomas Schneider, ver.di’s point man for organizing the strike at the Leipzig plant, argued that Amazon’s tactics, along with its refusal to even enter into talks with the unions, created an image of being against its own work force that could hurt it in the long run...The company says that after a year, its German workers make more money on average than those in similar businesses. And it says it has complied with German labor laws by allowing worker councils at its warehouses. In Germany, Amazon’s Mr. Clark said, the strikes had not disrupted its business because the number of workers walking out had been relatively small...The union, though, credits the strikes for recent improvements to overtime scheduling, an increase in the number of break rooms and a pledge by Amazon to pay Christmas bonuses, a standard practice in German industry. [Also refers to Apple, Facebook, Google, HP [Hewlett-Packard], IBM, Integrity Staffing Solutions]