{"id":8761,"date":"2023-01-26T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T07:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/first-uk-industrial-action-against-amazon-is-making-an-impact-says-gmb\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T07:40:57","slug":"first-uk-industrial-action-against-amazon-is-making-an-impact-says-gmb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/first-uk-industrial-action-against-amazon-is-making-an-impact-says-gmb\/","title":{"rendered":"First UK industrial action against Amazon is \u2018making an impact\u2019, says GMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managers said to be covering for striking staff, though firm insists action has not disrupted activity<\/p>\n<p>Workers at Amazon\u2019s huge Coventry depot described the \u201cstressful\u201d conditions inside as they staged a historic strike to demand pay of \u00a315 an hour \u2013 the first time the corporation has faced industrial action in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The local GMB organiser Amanda Gearing said the action on Wednesday was \u201cmaking an impact\u201d, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2023\/jan\/25\/warehouse-staff-coventry-stop-work-uks-first-amazon-strike-business-live\">Amazon\u2019s insistence<\/a> that work was proceeding as usual inside the high-walled warehouse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jan\/25\/first-uk-industrial-action-against-amazon-is-making-an-impact-says-gmb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/203c181b4944c65aa56e2d5ffe0bb70e87ad4df8\/0_311_8192_4918\/master\/8192.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6f3c9cbf5144a458c3c131480371d811\" title=\"First UK industrial action against Amazon is \u2018making an impact\u2019, says GMB\" \/>Managers said to be covering for striking staff, though firm insists action has not disrupted activity<br \/>\nWorkers at Amazon\u2019s huge Coventry depot described the \u201cstressful\u201d conditions inside as they staged a historic strike to demand pay of \u00a315 an hour \u2013 the first time the corporation has faced industrial action in the UK.<br \/>\nThe local GMB organiser Amanda Gearing said the action on Wednesday was \u201cmaking an impact\u201d, despite Amazon\u2019s insistence that work was proceeding as usual inside the high-walled warehouse. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managers said to be covering for striking staff, though firm insists action has not disrupted activity Workers at Amazon\u2019s huge Coventry depot described the \u201cstressful\u201d conditions inside as they staged a historic strike to demand pay of \u00a315 an hour \u2013 the first time the corporation has faced industrial action in the UK. The local &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/first-uk-industrial-action-against-amazon-is-making-an-impact-says-gmb\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First UK industrial action against Amazon is \u2018making an impact\u2019, says GMB<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8762,"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\/8761"}],"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=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}