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MEGA-RICH Amazon faces its first-ever British strike today as GMB members in Coventry prepare to down tools over plummeting take-home pay.
Hundreds of workers at the US-owned online retailer’s fulfilment centre in the West Midlands voted to walk out “in anger” over the firm’s 50 pence per hour wage offer last year, the union stressed.
GMB senior organiser Stuart Richards noted that more than 98 per cent of those who participated in the union’s ballot backed industrial action and hailed the staff as history-makers.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street