{"id":11819,"date":"2023-10-10T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/amazon-staff-in-coventry-to-strike-for-four-days-over-black-friday\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T12:37:37","slug":"amazon-staff-in-coventry-to-strike-for-four-days-over-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/amazon-staff-in-coventry-to-strike-for-four-days-over-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon staff in Coventry to strike for four days over Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GMB union says online retailer\u2019s planned wage rise is little comfort to staff facing \u2018poverty pay\u2019<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 Amazon workers at the online retailer\u2019s Coventry warehouse are to go on strike for four days next month, including on the busy Black Friday sales day.<\/p>\n<p>The action was announced as the GMB union said the company \u201cmust urgently reconsider its priorities\u201d, denouncing a planned pay rise for UK workers announced this week as \u201clittle comfort to the thousands of Amazon workers facing poverty pay, unsafe working conditions and workplace surveillance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/10\/amazon-staff-coventry-warehouse-strike-black-friday-gmb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/111f22304360b9ad04397d2ed97caf26b013f54f\/0_297_8192_4918\/master\/8192.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4179a6f854c3b5044c7bf8dd79de31c5\" title=\"Amazon staff in Coventry to strike for four days over Black Friday\" \/>GMB union says online retailer\u2019s planned wage rise is little comfort to staff facing \u2018poverty pay\u2019<br \/>\nMore than 1,000 Amazon workers at the online retailer\u2019s Coventry warehouse are to go on strike for four days next month, including on the busy Black Friday sales day.<br \/>\nThe action was announced as the GMB union said the company \u201cmust urgently reconsider its priorities\u201d, denouncing a planned pay rise for UK workers announced this week as \u201clittle comfort to the thousands of Amazon workers facing poverty pay, unsafe working conditions and workplace surveillance\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMB union says online retailer\u2019s planned wage rise is little comfort to staff facing \u2018poverty pay\u2019 More than 1,000 Amazon workers at the online retailer\u2019s Coventry warehouse are to go on strike for four days next month, including on the busy Black Friday sales day. The action was announced as the GMB union said the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/amazon-staff-in-coventry-to-strike-for-four-days-over-black-friday\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon staff in Coventry to strike for four days over Black Friday<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}