New Delhi: About 900 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Britain will strike for three days next week over a pay dispute, labor union GMB said on Saturday. In a statement emailed to Reuters, GMB said the strike will take place over three days from July 11-13 at Amazon’s warehouse in Coventry for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening.
This coincides with a “Prime Day” sales event the company has announced for July 11-12. (Also Read: Pune-based techie met woman on matrimonial site, promised to marry her and then defrauded her of nearly Rs 92 lakh)
“GMB members in Coventry have shown time and again that this fight will only end with £15 ($19.25) an hour and union rights,” said GMB senior organizer Rachel Fagan.
Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, says the minimum starting pay for its workers is between £11-12 an hour, depending on the location. The Coventry site does not deliver direct customer orders and will cause no disruption to customers, Amazon told Reuters in an email.
Last month, the union said Coventry warehouse workers had voted for another six months of strike action. The workers also went on strike last month from June 12 to 14.
Amazon is expected to record about $7 billion in revenue from its Prime Day sales, a 12% increase from last year’s third quarter Prime Day sales, according to JPMorgan.
Strikes have been called in a number of industries in Britain in recent months by nurses, teachers and transport workers in response to inflationary pressures.
On Thursday, trade union RMT said London Underground workers would strike from July 23-28 in a long-running dispute over pensions, job cuts and working conditions.
