Workers at the Graben and Leipzig warehouses are striking around the St. In Germany, Amazon employees have been fighting for a collective bargaining agreement with the company since 2013. Today’s action at the Madrid-area facility, which employs almost 2,000 workers, was the focus of earlier strikes around Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday. Earlier this month it also ran a consultation with a view to shuttering three UK sites, employing 1,200 people not included in the 18,000 figure, Amazon said.Workers at Amazon’s ‘fulfilment centres’ in San Fernando de Henares in Spain as well as Graben and Leipzig in Germany are walking out in protest at the company’s dangerous working conditions and aggressive anti-union behaviour. The company began laying off 18,000 workers worldwide last week after overexpanding and to prepare for potential recession. Meanwhile, the pandemic boost afforded to Amazon has proved short-lived. This represents a 29 percent increase in the minimum hourly wage paid to Amazon employees since 2018.Įmployees are also offered comprehensive benefits that are worth thousands more – including private medical insurance, life assurance, subsidized meals and an employee discount, to name a few. We appreciate the great work our teams do throughout the year and we're proud to offer competitive pay which starts at a minimum of between £10.50 and £11.45 per hour, depending on location. In fact, according to the verified figures, only a fraction of 1 percent of our UK employees voted in the ballot – and that includes those who voted against industrial action. We know there are workers at other centers that feel exactly the same and they are just waiting to see what happens."Ī tiny proportion of our workforce is involved. Not from someone like Amazon that got billions and billions of pounds of profits during the pandemic."Īs for whether the strike would catch on in other Amazon UK locations, she said: "Coventry might be the start of it but it won't be the finish. We've got the biggest cost of living crisis in decades and people are having to choose between heating their homes and eating.
£15 would mean that they are able to pay their bills. Referring to the salary demands, she said: "They just can't live on that, I'm afraid. Speaking from the picket line to BBC Radio 4 this morning, senior organizer Amanda Gearing said: "They should be listening to their workers and their workers are asking them to give them better pay, terms and conditions and get around the table with the union." Up to 18,000 Amazon workers in firing line as it chops cost.Amazon's attempt to crush New York union slapped down.Warehouse safety citations could cost Amazon seconds in revenue.We blew too much money hiring like crazy so we gave you the boot – Amazon.However, Amazon does not bend to union pressure easily, as seen in the States, and refuses to recognize GMB. The demand from GMB is a 45 percent raise to £15 ($18.46), which appears to be highly optimistic, but staff have argued that they are struggling to make ends meet without signing up for 60-hour work weeks. After six months of ignoring all requests to listen to workers' concerns, GMB urges Amazon UK bosses to do the right thing and give workers a proper pay rise. They should be rightly proud of themselves. They're taking on one of the world's biggest companies to fight for a decent standard of living. They've defied the odds to become the first ever Amazon workers in the UK to go on strike.
Today, Amazon workers in Coventry will make history.
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