Nearly 900 workers at an Amazon Warehouse in Coventry will stage a strike for three days due to a pay dispute, labour union GMB told the news agency Reuters on Saturday (July 8).

Nearly 900 workers at an Amazon Warehouse in Coventry will stage a strike for three days due to a pay dispute, labour union GMB told the news agency Reuters on Saturday (July 8). GMB said that the strike would take place from July 11-13 at the warehouse for two hours during the morning and two hours in the evening on the three days. The strike coincides with a "Prime Day" sales event the company has announced for July 11-12. GMB Senior Organiser Rachel Fagan said that the labour union's members in Coventry time and time again showed that this fight would only end with $19.25 (15 pounds) an hour and union rights. Amazon has, meanwhile, said that the minimum starting pay for its employees is between 11-12 pounds per hour, depending on the location. There will be no disruption to customers: Amazon Speaking to Reuters, Amazon said that the Coventry warehouse did not directly serve customer orders and there will be no disruption to customers. As per JP Morgan, the e-commerce giant is expected to record about $7 billion in revenue from its Prime Day sales, an increase of 12% from what was disclosed for Prime Day during the third quarter of last year. Also read | Amazon tricked millions of customers into Prime subscription: US watchdog Last month, the workers at the warehouse in Coventry voted for six more months of strikes and staged a walkout from June 12-14. The vote for strikes came after the GMB reluctantly withdrew an application for trade union recognition at BHX4 earlier in June. In April too, workers at the warehouse staged multiple strikes in a dispute about pay during the cost of living crisis in the UK. The strikes had first started in January. For months, strikes have been called in several industries across the UK, including by nurses, teachers and transportation workers in response to inflationary pressures. On Thursday, trade union RMT said the staff of the London Underground will strike from July 23-28 in a long-running dispute over pensions, job cuts and working conditions. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

UK: Amazon warehouse workers in Coventry to strike during Prime Day event

A few hundred workers at an Amazon warehouse in the United Kingdom (UK) walked out on Wednesday (January 25) over a pay increase worth five per cent, less than half the current inflation rate. This is the first strike that the e-commerce giant is facing in the UK. The warehouse is located in Coventry, central England and the workers there held a banner which said, "We are not robots," while another banner said, "We are worth more." Stuart Richards from the GMB union said, "The first-ever Amazon workers in the UK to go on strike" were "taking on one of the world's biggest companies to fight for a decent standard of living," news agency AFP reported.&nbsp;

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Richards said that after six months of ignoring all requests to listen to the concerns of the workers, the GMB union urged the bosses of Amazon UK to do the right thing and give workers a proper pay raise. Speaking to news agency Reuters, Richards said "So the Amazon worker's pay demand is £15 an hour, again we've taken that from what's happening in America. We saw Amazon talking around trying to persuade workers that they didn't need a union because they were paying $15 an hour. They've now raised that to $18 meanwhile workers in the UK are lagging far behind. They're on £10.50 at this warehouse at the moment."

Richards said that the warehouse workers (in the UK) were working incredibly long shifts just to try and make ends meet, just to try and feed their families. He added that Amazon was a multi-million-pound company that made huge amounts of money. "They may not pay any tax but they certainly make a lot of money and it's on the back of these workers. We're saying a part of that profit needs to go to support these workers, so they can actually live decent lives," he said.&nbsp;

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Another union official, Amanda Gearing, told the AFP on Wednesday that the warehouse workers were also protesting against ''other conditions'' which she described as horrendous. "They're just having to work, work, work, they're not allowed to talk to people, it's difficult to take a toilet break," she said.&nbsp;

This strike in the UK comes as tens of thousands of workers in the country including nurses, ambulance workers, teachers and railway staff have been protesting over pay and working conditions. On Monday (January 23), thousands of ambulance workers held another strike in the country with unions calling on the government to hold talks to improve pay and working conditions. Previously, the strikes (by ambulance workers) were held on January 11 and December 21, 2022. Further strikes are expected in February. &nbsp;

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A few hundred workers at an Amazon warehouse in the United Kingdom (UK) walked out on Wednesday (January 25) over a pay increase worth five per cent, less than half the current inflation rate.

A few hundred workers at an Amazon warehouse in the United Kingdom (UK) walked out on Wednesday (January 25) over a pay increase worth five per cent, less than half the current inflation rate. This is the first strike that the e-commerce giant is facing in the UK. The warehouse is located in Coventry, central England and the workers there held a banner which said, "We are not robots," while another banner said, "We are worth more." Stuart Richards from the GMB union said, "The first-ever Amazon workers in the UK to go on strike" were "taking on one of the world's biggest companies to fight for a decent standard of living," news agency AFP reported. ALSO READ | Amazon begins laying off 18,000 people from its cart of employees Richards said that after six months of ignoring all requests to listen to the concerns of the workers, the GMB union urged the bosses of Amazon UK to do the right thing and give workers a proper pay raise. Speaking to news agency Reuters, Richards said "So the Amazon worker's pay demand is £15 an hour, again we've taken that from what's happening in America. We saw Amazon talking around trying to persuade workers that they didn't need a union because they were paying $15 an hour. They've now raised that to $18 meanwhile workers in the UK are lagging far behind. They're on £10.50 at this warehouse at the moment." Richards said that the warehouse workers (in the UK) were working incredibly long shifts just to try and make ends meet, just to try and feed their families. He added that Amazon was a multi-million-pound company that made huge amounts of money. "They may not pay any tax but they certainly make a lot of money and it's on the back of these workers. We're saying a part of that profit needs to go to support these workers, so they can actually live decent lives," he said. ALSO READ | UK: Amazon to restructure warehouse operations, closures put over 1,000 jobs at risk Another union official, Amanda Gearing, told the AFP on Wednesday that the warehouse workers were also protesting against ''other conditions'' which she described as horrendous. "They're just having to work, work, work, they're not allowed to talk to people, it's difficult to take a toilet break," she said. This strike in the UK comes as tens of thousands of workers in the country including nurses, ambulance workers, teachers and railway staff have been protesting over pay and working conditions. On Monday (January 23), thousands of ambulance workers held another strike in the country with unions calling on the government to hold talks to improve pay and working conditions. Previously, the strikes (by ambulance workers) were held on January 11 and December 21, 2022. Further strikes are expected in February. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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UK: Amazon warehouse workers in Coventry to strike during Prime Day event

'We're not robots': UK Amazon workers unhappy with minimal raise go on strike