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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
CO-OP customers “will be rightly shocked” by the retailer’s new online deal with transnational giant Amazon, the GMB union said today.
The member-owned group has entered an alliance with Amazon that aims to more than double the Co-op’s online sales by the end of the year, alongside the continued rollout of robot technology to offer “super-fast” deliveries nationwide.
GMB is among a number of unions worldwide seeking to organise Amazon workers in the face of determined union-busting tactics.
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
