Mar 31, 2023
Amazon workers in Coventry announce six more strike dates
Amazon workers in Coventry - the first in the UK to strike - are to take a further six days of industrial action in a continuing dispute over pay. The GMB told the BBC it is close to signing up enough workers so that Amazon would have to recognise a union for the first time. At the moment, Amazon doesn't recognise the GMB and so won't negotiate with them, but the union hopes that at the Coventry warehouse, that's about to change. If a further 91 Amazon staff members were to join the GMB, taking the total number of members to 651, the union says it will apply to the Central Arbitration Committee for "Statutory recognition"'. On statutory recognition, the CAC says: ''The basic principle is that recognition is granted if a majority of the workers in the bargaining unit wish it... the CAC may declare the union to be recognised without a ballot if more than 50% of the workers in the bargaining unit are members of the union.
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