AMAZON’S plans to shut three of its warehouses in Britain, putting 1,200 jobs at risk, are a “real kick in the teeth for hard-working staff,” GMB said today.

The union, which represents hundreds of the US-owned firm’s British-based staff, blasted Amazon’s announcement that it had launched consultations on the widely criticised move. 

About 900 jobs are in danger at two sites in England, Hemel Hempstead and Doncaster, and about 300 in the western Scottish town of Gourock.