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Amazon staff plan more strikes as they reject ‘insulting’ pay offer
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.

GROUNDBREAKING Amazon strikes in Coventry are set to continue after the latest “insulting” pay offer, GMB has warned.

The US-owned online retail giant has offered workers at its warehouse in the West Midlands city a massively below-inflation increase worth between 1.8 and 2.5 per cent, the union said on Wednesday.

The proposal is part of the mega-rich transnational’s plans to raise hourly basic pay from £10.50 to £11 for each of its 50,000 workers across Britain from next month, when the statutory minimum wage goes up.

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