Amanda Geary, a senior organizer at the union said: “Amazon workers should be applauded for their grit and determination – fighting for what’s right in the face of an appallingly hostile environment. The fact that they are being forced to go on strike to win a decent rate of pay from one of the world’s most valuable companies should be a badge of shame for Amazon. Amazon can afford to do better. It’s not too late to avoid strike action get round the table with GMB to improve the pay and conditions of workers.”Īmazon Labor Union suffers major blow in Albany Perhaps understandably then, the GMB union has been relatively caustic in its language about the strike. That means the daily pay raise Amazon is offering is equivalent to one large box of breakfast cereal. Naturally, businesses face these increases too, which is putting additional strain on the entire supply chain of the necessities of life. Of all the items measured by the consumer price index, the ones most hit by the inflationary spiral in the UK are the things that affect everyone – domestic power, food and drink, and transport (including gas). Is Amazon betting on the warehouse robot to replace humans? The last time it was this high was in the early 1980s – which coincides with the last time there were significant and widespread strikes in the UK. That’s set against a consumer price index rise of 9.6% across the course of 2022, meaning everything costs much more than it did a year ago in the UK. For a standard 8-hour shift, that means the raise equates to £4 per day (equivalent to $4.86). The proposed Amazon pay raise amounts to 50p per hour (technically equivalent to 50c, but with less buying power in a wildly inflationary economy). The union’s demand for higher wages may therefore be understandable against a background of economic chaos and increasing desperation, with no end in sight. The strikes have come after a combination of sustained underfunding by both private companies (in the case of the postal service and the railways) and central government (in the case of border staff and the NHS nurses), and a crushing inflationary spiral which is currently seeing the UK endure one of the worst recessions on record – with every sign of significant continuing downturn across 20.
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Workers in several areas of critical infrastructure in the UK, from the postal service to the railways, to border staff, to the NHS (National Health Service – the UK’s socialized medical system, which gives treatment and medication to all comers, free at the point of need) are currently staging strikes over pay and conditions. The strike is understood to be the first such strike by Amazon workers in the UK, and while the reason for the action is Amazon’s interpretation of a fair wage increase, it is also worth noting that the Amazon workers will not be alone.
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