Amazon workers in Coventry are calling for union recognition after months of strikes over pay. The trade union GMB has announced that over half of the workers at the Coventry site are now members of the union, meeting the threshold for mandatory union recognition. The move would give workers the right to collective bargaining over pay and conditions. The GMB has been campaigning for Amazon to improve pay and conditions for workers across the company, and this latest move marks a significant step forward in the campaign. The union has called on Amazon to sit down and talk pay with the GMB, after weeks of campaigning and 14 days of strikes at the Coventry site.
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