UK Amazon workers to strike for six days in April

Amazon employees at a warehouse in central England are to carry six extra days of strikes in April in a dispute over pay, an announcement from the GMB commerce union mentioned on Friday.

GMB mentioned greater than 560 employees on the warehouse in Coventry would stroll out on April 16-18 and April 21-23. Workers on the website staged the primary strike on the U.S. tech firm’s operations in Britain in January, adopted by an extra seven days in February and March.

“Six further days of strike action in Coventry is a clear statement from our members they are worth more; they will not accept a pay rise of pennies from one of the world’s wealthiest corporations,” Amanda Gearing, GMB Senior Organiser, mentioned in an announcement.

The union mentioned on Friday it could additionally start balloting employees at 5 achievement centres throughout central England for industrial motion.

Amazon, which employs 75,000 individuals throughout the UK, mentioned its minimal pay had risen by 10% over the previous seven months.

“We regularly review our pay to ensure we offer competitive wages, and we recently announced another increase for our UK teams,” the corporate’s UK unit mentioned in an emailed assertion.

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