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GMB union on the picket line outside the Amazon fulfillment centre in Coventry, February 2023
STRIKING Amazon workers are “standing strong against disgusting intimidation” from bosses, they told fellow trade unionists today.
Addressing a fringe meeting at GMB congress 2023, workers from the US-owned online retail giant’s Coventry warehouse slammed management for “taking us for a ride” but stressed their historic walkouts are “empowering” colleagues globally.
Striker Darren Westwood blasted a 50p pay rise, which prompted staff in the West Midlands to launch the first British-based Amazon strike last January, as a “smack in the teeth” which had galvanised the workforce.
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‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says