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Amazon staff members on a GMB union picket line outside the online retailer's site in Coventry, November 24, 2023
AMAZON workers have announced new strike dates at two so-called fulfilment centres, with the retail giant potentially on the brink of forced union recognition, the GMB union said today.
GMB members have submitted an application for mandatory recognition at Amazon to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC).
The body is responsible for regulating collective bargaining between workers and employers, and can force companies to recognise a trade union if more than 50 per cent of the workforce are members.
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
