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Breaking new ground – the battle for decent pay at Amazon
Workers have started a week-long strike at the notoriously anti-union multibillion-dollar company’s Coventry warehouse. PHIL STREET reports
Members of the GMB union during a rally outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry as Amazon workers are staging their first ever strike in the UK in a dispute over pay. Picture date: Wednesday January 25, 2023.
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IT WAS appropriate that stormy weather accompanied the first day of the first week-long strike that Amazon has ever experienced in this country and possibly in the whole of Europe.
Workers at the company’s Coventry warehouse are creating a fair few dark clouds for the multibillion-dollar company.
The five days of action follow on from two separate days of strikes called by GMB in January and February.
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