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Amazon staff members on a GMB union picket line outside the online retailer's site in Coventry, as they take part in a strike in their long-running dispute over pay, March 19, 2024
AMAZON workers began voting on whether GMB should be recognised as their union today, after staging more than 30 days of strikes during nearly two years of fighting the retail giant’s union-busting tactics.
More than 3,000 staff will take part in the historic month-long ballot, whose outcome will be legally binding.
Officials from the union visited the company’s Coventry site today after the GMB was granted the right to hold the ballot by the independent Central Arbitration Committee.
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
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
