Thousands of Amazon workers begin voting in historic union recognition ballot
Members of the GMB union on the picket line outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry, November 7, 2023
MORE than 3,000 Amazon workers began voting today on whether the online retail giant’s British arm should recognise a trade union for the first time.
Demonstrations took place at Amazon warehouses nationwide as workers at the company’s Coventry site began casting votes in the historic ballot.
It follows a three-week period in which union representatives were granted access to Amazon’s Coventry fulfilment centre by the government’s Central Arbitration Committee.
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