Amazon workers ready for a ‘David & Goliath battle’ as they strike again over insulting 50p pay rise
STRIKING Amazon workers are ready for a David & Goliath battle over poverty pay rates, their union GMB said today as staff in Coventry continued their history-making walkout.
More than 350 workers at the US-owned online retail giant’s warehouse in the West Midlands extended Britain’s first-ever Amazon walkout, downing tools between 6 and 8am and 6 and 8pm.
The industrial action, which is due to be repeated tomorrow ahead of a five-day strike from March 13, comes after bosses offered a derisory wage deal amounting to just 50p an hour.
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