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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Heather Stewart

GMB starts ballot process to be recognised at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse

The Amazon building in Coventry.
If workers at Amazon in Coventry vote to support recognition, it will mark the first time the tech company has recognised a union in the UK. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

Officials from the GMB are urging staff at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse to “together, vote yes”, at the start of a month-long ballot process that could trigger a historic union recognition deal.

Officials from the union began visiting the West Midlands site on Wednesday after the GMB was granted the right to hold the legally binding ballot by the independent Central Arbitration Committee. Amazon had rejected a request for voluntary recognition.

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