{"id":7341,"date":"2022-10-11T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/i-just-want-to-live-how-uk-amazon-workers-came-to-brink-of-strike\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:40:14","slug":"i-just-want-to-live-how-uk-amazon-workers-came-to-brink-of-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/i-just-want-to-live-how-uk-amazon-workers-came-to-brink-of-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I just want to live\u2019: how UK Amazon workers came to brink of strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A worker describes conditions in the Coventry warehouse and why he ended up joining a union<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/11\/amazon-coventry-workers-strike-ballot-uk-first\">Amazon: Coventry workers balloted for strike action in UK first<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want Jeff Bezos\u2019s boat, I definitely don\u2019t want his rocket \u2013 but I just want to live,\u201d says George [not his real name] who works at Amazon\u2019s vast Coventry \u201cfulfilment centre\u201d, and has become involved in organising workers there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI shouldn\u2019t have to work 60 hours a week just to pay bills,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve got kids. Kids need shoes, school uniform; they need to eat. I had a debt collector send me a letter. I phoned them back and we went through my wages and my outgoings and she said, \u2018I don\u2019t know how you\u2019re staying alive.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/11\/i-just-want-to-live-how-uk-amazon-workers-came-to-brink-of-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2d428dc7cb4977d3020e946b80da31c82b87f674\/160_51_2714_1629\/master\/2714.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f9cc75c3b5f1a7f7cabc75d32b21f73b\" title=\"\u2018I just want to live\u2019: how UK Amazon workers came to brink of strike\" \/>A worker describes conditions in the Coventry warehouse and why he ended up joining a union<br \/>\nAmazon: Coventry workers balloted for strike action in UK first<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t want Jeff Bezos\u2019s boat, I definitely don\u2019t want his rocket \u2013 but I just want to live,\u201d says George [not his real name] who works at Amazon\u2019s vast Coventry \u201cfulfilment centre\u201d, and has become involved in organising workers there.<br \/>\n\u201cI shouldn\u2019t have to work 60 hours a week just to pay bills,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve got kids. Kids need shoes, school uniform; they need to eat. I had a debt collector send me a letter. I phoned them back and we went through my wages and my outgoings and she said, \u2018I don\u2019t know how you\u2019re staying alive.\u2019\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A worker describes conditions in the Coventry warehouse and why he ended up joining a union Amazon: Coventry workers balloted for strike action in UK first \u201cI don\u2019t want Jeff Bezos\u2019s boat, I definitely don\u2019t want his rocket \u2013 but I just want to live,\u201d says George [not his real name] who works at Amazon\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/i-just-want-to-live-how-uk-amazon-workers-came-to-brink-of-strike\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I just want to live\u2019: how UK Amazon workers came to brink of strike<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7342,"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\/7341"}],"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=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}