LABOUR’S Angela Rayner has urged mega-rich Amazon to meet the GMB union and negotiate a decent wage rise for its workers after they staged walk-outs, sit-ins and go-slow protests against poor pay. 

The party’s deputy leader urged bosses at the US-owned online retail giant to work with the union to help employees through the most “profound cost-of-living crisis in a generation.”

Staff at Amazon sites nationwide, including Bristol, Doncaster, Swindon, Rugby, Coventry and in south-east London, held impromptu protests last week after bosses offered a pay rise amounting to just 35p an hour.