Workers at Amazon’s Coventry plant strike in the middle of Black Friday
Strikes in rejection of Amazon’s management are being held elsewhere in Europe and the U.S., making it the largest day of strikes in the company’s history.
Around a thousand workers at Amazon’s plant in Coventry (England) will go on strike this Friday, coinciding with Black Friday, as part of their dispute over their working conditions.
The members of the GMB union -which groups this union- already held strikes on November 7, 8, 9 and today’s strike coincides with one of the busiest trading days in the country.
Strikes and demonstrations in rejection of Amazon’s management are also being held in other parts of Europe and the United States, today being, according to the unions, the biggest day of stoppages in the history of that company which, for its part, insists that the measure will not affect its customers.
According to GMB, around a thousand employees joined the strike in Coventry – the center of the delivery giant’s distribution operations in this country – where the dispute originated last January.
As already indicated by GMB when calling the industrial action, the strikes are «the response» of union members to the failure of Amazon management to listen».
The US giant recently announced a minimum entry-level wage hike of at least £1 per hour, bringing the minimum wage from £11.80 to £12.50 (between 13.66 and 14.4 euros), depending on location.
