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Amazon workers at Rugeley warehouse vote for strike action
Members of the GMB union during a rally outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry as Amazon workers are staging their first ever strike in the UK in a dispute over pay. Picture date: Wednesday January 25, 2023.

MORE than 100 workers at a second Amazon warehouse are to strike in an escalation of a dispute over pay and working conditions.

Workers at Amazon’s Rugeley Fulfilment Centre will join 1,000 Amazon staff at the international corporation’s Coventry warehouse who have staged 22 days of strike action over pay and working conditions.

Dates for action are to be announced

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