{"id":15127,"date":"2024-07-14T06:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T04:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/14\/lets-make-history-amazon-staff-at-uk-warehouse-vote-on-union-recognition\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T06:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T04:38:01","slug":"lets-make-history-amazon-staff-at-uk-warehouse-vote-on-union-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/14\/lets-make-history-amazon-staff-at-uk-warehouse-vote-on-union-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let\u2019s make history!\u2019: Amazon staff at UK warehouse vote on union recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Coventry, the GMB has been canvassing hard to represent workers officially \u2013 and the potentially historic result is due this week<\/p>\n

On a traffic island on the outskirts of Cov\u00adentry, armed with handmade signs and a stack of orange bucket hats, a small but noisy team of organisers from the GMB union are taking on Amazon.<\/p>\n

More than 3,000 staff here \u2013 \u201cassociates,\u201d as Amazon calls them \u2013 were given the opportunity to vote in a historic ballot last week<\/a> that could force the company to recognise a union for the first time in the UK. It is one of several tussles over union recognition globally at the retail-to-cloud-services group founded by Jeff Bezos<\/a> in his garage in 1994 and now worth more than $2 trillion.<\/p>\n

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\nIn Coventry, the GMB has been canvassing hard to represent workers officially \u2013 and the potentially historic result is due this week
\nOn a traffic island on the outskirts of Cov\u00adentry, armed with handmade signs and a stack of orange bucket hats, a small but noisy team of organisers from the GMB union are taking on Amazon.
\nMore than 3,000 staff here \u2013 \u201cassociates,\u201d as Amazon calls them \u2013 were given the opportunity to vote in a historic ballot last week that could force the company to recognise a union for the first time in the UK. It is one of several tussles over union recognition globally at the retail-to-cloud-services group founded by Jeff Bezos in his garage in 1994 and now worth more than $2 trillion. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Coventry, the GMB has been canvassing hard to represent workers officially \u2013 and the potentially historic result is due this week On a traffic island on the outskirts of Cov\u00adentry, armed with handmade signs and a stack of orange bucket hats, a small but noisy team of organisers from the GMB union are taking …<\/p>\n

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