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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 Britain in a dispute over pay
AMAZON was hit by its first-ever British strike today as workers in Coventry offered a “derisory” pay rise of just 50 pence an hour took on one of the world’s biggest firms.
Staff at the US-owned online retail and logistics giant “just want a decent standard of living” as inflation tops 10 per cent, their union GMB stressed.
Speaking from a picket line outside the transnational company’s fulfilment centre in the West Midlands, the union’s senior organiser Amanda Gearing said the 178 employees who backed walkouts in a recent ballot have “had enough.”
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