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Members of the GMB union who work at Amazon picket outside the online retailer's site in Coventry, as they take part in a three-day strike to coincide with Valentine's Day in their long-running dispute over pay, February 13, 2024
AMAZON could be on the brink of being forced to recognise a trade union for the first time in Britain after GMB made a formal bid to government body the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC).
The committee is responsible for regulating collective bargaining between workers and employers and can force firms to recognise a trade union if more than 50 per cent of the workforce are members.
After over a year of industrial action, union membership at the company’s Coventry site has grown significantly.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years