{"id":12303,"date":"2023-11-19T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T12:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/black-friday-strike-could-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amazons-war-on-unions\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T13:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T12:37:57","slug":"black-friday-strike-could-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amazons-war-on-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/black-friday-strike-could-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amazons-war-on-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday strike could mark the beginning of the end for Amazon\u2019s war on unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising GMB membership, cross-border action and a probable new government point to better times for thousands of workers<\/p>\n<p>Ten months after their first historic walkout, GMB members at Amazon\u2019s huge Coventry warehouse are staging a 28th day of strike action this week, to coincide with Black Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The seeds of the dispute were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/05\/amazon-staff-essex-protest-pay-dispute-coventry-bristol-rugeley\" title=\"\">sown in summer 2022, when some staff reacted furiously to being told their pay would rise by 50p an hour, taking the basic rate to \u00a310.50<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/19\/black-friday-strike-could-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amazons-war-on-unions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a4cdccf74b36198a88176fa74f5219bf87de869f\/0_109_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=238757e073bcdc796be3ec7bac0c8853\" title=\"Black Friday strike could mark the beginning of the end for Amazon\u2019s war on unions\" \/>Rising GMB membership, cross-border action and a probable new government point to better times for thousands of workers<br \/>\nTen months after their first historic walkout, GMB members at Amazon\u2019s huge Coventry warehouse are staging a 28th day of strike action this week, to coincide with Black Friday.<br \/>\nThe seeds of the dispute were sown in summer 2022, when some staff reacted furiously to being told their pay would rise by 50p an hour, taking the basic rate to \u00a310.50. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising GMB membership, cross-border action and a probable new government point to better times for thousands of workers Ten months after their first historic walkout, GMB members at Amazon\u2019s huge Coventry warehouse are staging a 28th day of strike action this week, to coincide with Black Friday. The seeds of the dispute were sown in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/black-friday-strike-could-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amazons-war-on-unions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Friday strike could mark the beginning of the end for Amazon\u2019s war on unions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12304,"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\/12303"}],"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=12303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}