{"id":6633,"date":"2022-08-09T17:36:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/gmb-calls-for-15-an-hour-minimum-pay-at-amazon-warehouses-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:36:51","slug":"gmb-calls-for-15-an-hour-minimum-pay-at-amazon-warehouses-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/gmb-calls-for-15-an-hour-minimum-pay-at-amazon-warehouses-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"GMB calls for \u00a315 an hour minimum pay at Amazon warehouses in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company has offered only a 35p rise, and hundreds of workers stopped work last week in protest<\/p>\n<p>The GMB union has submitted formal pay claims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> seeking a minimum of \u00a315 an hour for workers at its UK warehouses as unofficial protests continue to dog the online retailer.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of workers in warehouses across the country, including Tilbury in Essex, Dartford in Kent, Belvedere in south-east London, Coventry, Avonmouth, near Bristol and Rugeley in Staffordshire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/05\/amazon-staff-essex-protest-pay-dispute-coventry-bristol-rugeley\">stopped work last week<\/a> after Amazon offered workers a 35p an hour pay rise \u2013 equivalent to about 3% compared with the June inflation rate of 9.4%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/09\/gmb-calls-for-15-an-hour-minimum-pay-at-amazon-warehouses-in-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/291ae895c6bd0dd55274d8d7a6985a932cd27e39\/0_185_4855_2914\/master\/4855.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=52e98f37aeebc77366452ebd6a8d91a8\" title=\"GMB calls for \u00a315 an hour minimum pay at Amazon warehouses in UK\" \/>The company has offered only a 35p rise, and hundreds of workers stopped work last week in protest<br \/>\nThe GMB union has submitted formal pay claims to Amazon seeking a minimum of \u00a315 an hour for workers at its UK warehouses as unofficial protests continue to dog the online retailer.<br \/>\nHundreds of workers in warehouses across the country, including Tilbury in Essex, Dartford in Kent, Belvedere in south-east London, Coventry, Avonmouth, near Bristol and Rugeley in Staffordshire, stopped work last week after Amazon offered workers a 35p an hour pay rise \u2013 equivalent to about 3% compared with the June inflation rate of 9.4%. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company has offered only a 35p rise, and hundreds of workers stopped work last week in protest The GMB union has submitted formal pay claims to Amazon seeking a minimum of \u00a315 an hour for workers at its UK warehouses as unofficial protests continue to dog the online retailer. Hundreds of workers in warehouses &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/gmb-calls-for-15-an-hour-minimum-pay-at-amazon-warehouses-in-uk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GMB calls for \u00a315 an hour minimum pay at Amazon warehouses in UK<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6634,"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\/6633"}],"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=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}