- Amazon.Com, Inc AMZN Fulfillment center workers in the UK prepared for an unprecedented strike.
- The 24-hour strike action began at midnight Jan. 25, CNBC reports.
- The strikers are expected to strike outside the company’s Coventry site in central England throughout the day.
- Members of the GMB Union, who work at the retailer’s Coventry depot, held a strike vote in December after Amazon offered an increase of 50p an hour ($0.56 an hour), which is 5% and well below inflation lies.
- Workers want the company to pay at least £15 an hour and want better working conditions too.
- Amazon employees have complained of long hours and aggressive, tech-enhanced employee surveillance.
- About 98% of the workers who voted were in favor of strikes at Bloomberg reports.
- The strike follows a series of unofficial strikes and slowdowns in warehouses across the UK last year after Amazon released the pay rise update.
- Amazon said the employees involved represent “just a fraction of 1% of our UK workforce”.
- the pay for amazon The number of UK warehouse workers has risen by 29% since 2018 and highlighted a one-off payment of £500 made to staff to help with the cost of living crisis.
- Amazon began laying off employees in 2022 to combat the slowdown and macroeconomic uncertainties. The total dismissal will probably do 18,000, which is about 1% of all employees, a record in itself.
- Amazon has announced its plans to close three of its UK warehouses this year. which will affect 1,200 employees.
- Amazon managed to break most union efforts in the US by breaking the workers and taking the necessary steps.
- Price promotion: AMZN shares traded 2.03% lower at $94.36 premarket on the latest check Wednesday.
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