“Hundreds of Amazon workers are on strike today in Coventry, over 98% of them support the strike,” the GMB union said in a post, with a photo of the strikers.
Hundreds of Amazon workers are on strike today at a warehouse of the US giant in Coventry, central England, demanding better wages, a first for the company in the UK.
“Hundreds of Amazon workers are on strike today in Coventry, over 98% of them support the strike,” the GMB union said in a post, with a photo of the strikers.
Amazon workers had already gone on strike demanding better wages in the UK last summer, most notably at a warehouse in Tilbury, east London, but it was not officially a strike at the time, as it requires certain procedures, such as a vote. between employees.
MP and former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted a photo of workers holding GMB union placards reading ‘We deserve more’ or ‘Amazon worker exploitation must stop. I support the workers at Amazon, they are not robots.”
“It takes an Amazon warehouse worker over 8 weeks of work to make what CEO Jeff Bezos makes in just one second,” Corbyn said in his post, adding “They are striking for the first time in the UK to demand better wages and working conditions’.
A GMB union official told the BBC that workers are currently paid £10 an hour and cannot live on that wage level. They are asking for £15, arguing that a digital giant like Amazon has the wherewithal to do so.
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