{"id":8695,"date":"2023-01-22T00:38:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T23:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/first-industrial-action-at-amazon-uk-hopes-to-strike-at-firms-union-hostility\/"},"modified":"2023-01-22T00:38:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T23:38:39","slug":"first-industrial-action-at-amazon-uk-hopes-to-strike-at-firms-union-hostility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/first-industrial-action-at-amazon-uk-hopes-to-strike-at-firms-union-hostility\/","title":{"rendered":"First industrial action at Amazon UK hopes to strike at firm\u2019s union hostility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise<\/p>\n<p>Amazon workers at a vast depot in Coventry will stage a historic strike on Wednesday \u2013 the first time the delivery giant\u2019s UK operations have ever been hit by industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate cause of the dispute was a 50p-an-hour pay rise offered to warehouse staff in the summer, which many felt was insulting \u2013 particularly after they had worked throughout the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jan\/22\/first-industrial-action-at-amazon-uk-hopes-to-strike-at-firms-union-hostility\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/479da571cfaac59a69e2f8e4348e60d2372d5e91\/0_146_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9dc27a9815145bebcd95d2439d5bc160\" title=\"First industrial action at Amazon UK hopes to strike at firm\u2019s union hostility\" \/>In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise<br \/>\nAmazon workers at a vast depot in Coventry will stage a historic strike on Wednesday \u2013 the first time the delivery giant\u2019s UK operations have ever been hit by industrial action.<br \/>\nThe immediate cause of the dispute was a 50p-an-hour pay rise offered to warehouse staff in the summer, which many felt was insulting \u2013 particularly after they had worked throughout the Covid pandemic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise Amazon workers at a vast depot in Coventry will stage a historic strike on Wednesday \u2013 the first time the delivery giant\u2019s UK operations have ever been hit by industrial action. The immediate cause of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/first-industrial-action-at-amazon-uk-hopes-to-strike-at-firms-union-hostility\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First industrial action at Amazon UK hopes to strike at firm\u2019s union hostility<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8696,"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\/8695"}],"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=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}