LONDON -Amazon workers at a warehouse in Coventry in central England are keen to strike over pay, a union stated on Friday, within the newest labour dispute involving the U.S. e-commerce large’s British employees.
Greater than 300 employees voted in a consultative poll – the place 97% stated they had been able to strike – forward of a attainable formal vote on whether or not to hold out a strike, the GMB union stated.
“Amazon employees are rightly livid and they're able to stroll out,” GMB Senior Organiser Amanda Gearing stated. “They’re being provided 35p an hour in the course of the worst value of residing disaster in a technology – and that’s from an organization value greater than 1 trillion (kilos).”
Amazon, which has 70,000 employees within the UK, stated its beginning pay had risen to a minimal of 10.50-11.45 kilos ($12-$13) per hour — a 29% enhance within the minimal hourly wage for Amazon associates since 2018.
Staff are additionally provided a advantages bundle value “hundreds of kilos yearly”, a UK consultant for Amazon stated in a press release.
Rising prices of residing have sparked a wave of commercial unrest throughout industries in Britain as hovering inflation outpaces pay rises.
Tons of of Amazon employees at a warehouse in Tilbury in southeast England walked out in protest over pay final month, over a 35 pence per hour pay enhance, lower than the 2-pound rise sought by the GMB.
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