{"id":1967652,"date":"2023-07-08T19:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T23:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-workers-at-uk-warehouse-to-strike-during-prime-day-event\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T19:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T23:03:24","slug":"amazon-workers-at-uk-warehouse-to-strike-during-prime-day-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-workers-at-uk-warehouse-to-strike-during-prime-day-event\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Amazon warehouse workers to strike on Prime Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-workers-at-uk-warehouse-to-strike-during-prime-day-event%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1967652&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By Anirudh Saligrama<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) -Nearly 900 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Britain will stage a strike for three days in the coming week over a pay dispute, labour union GMB said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The strike will take place from July 11-13 at Amazon\u2019s warehouse in Coventry, for two hours during the morning and two hours in the evening on the three days, GMB said in an emailed statement to Reuters. It coincides with a \u201cPrime Day\u201d sales event the company has announced for July 11-12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGMB members in Coventry have time and time again shown that this fight will only end with 15 pounds ($19.25) an hour and union rights,\u201d GMB Senior Organiser Rachel Fagan said.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-tech-companies-have-their-worst-quarter-ever\/\" title=\"Chinese Tech Companies Have Their Worst Quarter Ever\">largest e-commerce<\/a> said that the minimum starting pay for its employees is between 11-12 pounds per hour, depending on the location.<\/p>\n<p>The Coventry site does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-workers-at-uk-warehouse-to-strike-during-prime-day-event\/\" title=\"UK Amazon warehouse workers to strike on Prime Day.\">directly serve customer orders<\/a> and there will be no disruption to customers, Amazon told Reuters in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the union said that the Coventry warehouse workers had voted for six more months of strikes. The workers also went on strike last month from June 12-14.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is expected to record about $7 billion in revenue  from its Prime Day sales, an increase of 12% from what was disclosed for Prime Day during the third quarter last year, according to JPMorgan.<\/p>\n<p>Strikes have been called in several industries in Britain in recent months, including by nurses, teachers and transportation workers in response to inflationary pressures.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, trade union RMT said the staff of the London Underground will strike from July 23-28 in a long-running dispute over pensions, job cuts and working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 0.7791 pounds)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Editing by Alistair Bell)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/amazon-workers-at-uk\/attachment\/file-photo-an-amazon-logo-is-pictured-at-a-logistics-2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Facebook and Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg releases new Threads app, which many say is a \u2018softer\u2019 version of rival Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter app, but the new app faces controversy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>National Political Correspondent Neil W. 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