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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Heather Stewart

Amazon union members launch strike ballots at two UK sites

Picketing Amazon workers
UK Amazon workers stage a strike in Coventry in January 2023. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

Union members at Amazon are stepping up their battle over pay and conditions, launching strike ballots at two more warehouses, as the GMB union demands formal recognition at the delivery company’s Coventry site.

GMB members at Amazon fulfilment centres in Rugeley, Staffordshire, and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, are voting on whether to strike after signalling their readiness to take industrial action in consultative ballots.

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