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Breaking new ground – the battle for decent pay at Amazon
Workers have started a week-long strike at the notoriously anti-union multibillion-dollar company’s Coventry warehouse. PHIL STREET reports
Members of the GMB union on the picket line outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry as Amazon workers take strike action in a dispute over pay. Picture date: Tuesday February 28, 2023.

IT WAS appropriate that stormy weather accompanied the first day of the first week-long strike that Amazon has ever experienced in this country and possibly in the whole of Europe.

Workers at the company’s Coventry warehouse are creating a fair few dark clouds for the multibillion-dollar company.

The five days of action follow on from two separate days of strikes called by GMB in January and February.

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