UK Amazon staff in protests over union recognition

Amazon employees are expected to protest outside the firm's warehouses in the UK in a dispute over workers' rights. It coincides with the start of a ballot in a "Bid to force Amazon to recognise a union for the first time" in the country, the GMB union said. The US online retailer said their workers "Always have" the choice to join a union however GMB filed legal proceedings in April against the firm, claiming they were "Engaged in widespread attempts to coerce staff to cancel their trade union membership". The union has been struggling for the right to officially represent Amazon workers in Coventry for more than a decade. Y Prendergast, national secretary at GMB, said workers were concerned over "Pay and unsafe conditions".

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