Hundreds of Amazon warehouse workers are striking in Germany right ahead of the Christmas season... again. This is the third consecutive year that the German union Verdi has called on Amazon employees to strike before Christmas to pressure the company to give workers better pay and benefits. But Amazon is resisting the union's calls, saying it offers employees an "attractive" compensation deal. The company insists that the strike won't delay shipments of packages and gifts during its busiest season of the year. Amazon employs 10,000 full-time workers in its nine German warehouses, and has signed on another 10,000 seasonal workers to deal with the surge in holiday business. It said a few hundred people walked off the job today at six warehouses. The union said about 1,700 people participated in the strike.