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.