Union loses historic vote at Amazon in Coventry

The GMB has narrowly lost its historic bid for union recognition at the Amazon warehouse in Coventry. If the GMB had won, Amazon would have been forced to negotiate with workers over pay and conditions. Amazon had offered workers a pay rise of between 35p and 50p an hour. Having toiled in warehouses during the Covid pandemic, workers said this felt like an insult, and in Coventry a small group of angry workers spontaneously walked out and protested outside the fulfilment centre. In January 2023, with a GMB membership of just 50, Coventry workers held the first ever Amazon strike in the UK. It went on to organise a further 37 days of industrial action over the last year and by recruiting on the picket line, steadily built up its membership to more than 1,400 members out of the centre's estimated 3,000 plus workers.

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