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Members of the GMB union on the picket line outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry as Amazon workers take strike action in a dispute over pay, February 28, 2023
HUNDREDS of workers at Coventry’s Amazon plant will begin their 16th day of strike action tomorrow as they demand better pay from the multinational.
GMB members expect as many as 700 workers to join the walkout, as they demand £15 an hour from a company which posted profits equating to £1.2 million an hour in the last quarter.
The strike action continues amid what GMB has hailed as a “historic” bid to gain recognition at the notoriously anti-trade union Amazon – that ballot is due to conclude on June 9.
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