Amazon (GMB) Strike Calendar

• Amazon is facing strikes during one of its busiest weeks of the year, Prime Week.
• GMB members at the company’s Coventry fulfilment centre voted for more walkouts.
• Almost 900 workers are anticipated to join the strike action and will bring the total strike days at the retail giant to 22.
• The workers will walk out on Tuesday 11, Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 July.
• The strike action will have a huge impact on Amazon’s Prime Week operation, according to the GMB senior organiser, Racheal Fagan.
• GMB members in Coventry are fighting for £15 an hour and union rights.
• Prime Week can see Amazon rake in as much as £2 billion in sales.
• When the GMB members are standing on the picket line in Coventry next month they’ll have a simple message for the company; you can’t get human beings on the cheap.

After months of strike action, GMB’s membership at the warehouse had rocketed to 800. Amazon publicly stated last year there were 1,400 workers at the warehouse [1], meaning GMB members made up more than the 50 per cent needed for statutory union recognition.

However, once GMB made an official application to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), Amazon claimed to have 2,700 workers – a claim accepted by the CAC. GMB members working at Amazon Coventry claim the warehouse has been flooded with up to 1,000 new starters since the strike action began.

Amazon employees in the UK are voting on whether to take industrial action, after the company announced a pay raise of just pennies per hour. -The new strikes follow 14 days of strike action at the retail giant's Coventry depot. -Union members will now vote on full and binding industrial action ballots at Amazon's Mansfield and Rugeley fulfilment centres. -GMB has reached the membership threshold for mandatory recognition of Amazon's workers, which could mark the retail giant's first union recognition in Europe.

The GMB union says almost 700 Amazon workers in Coventry are now members. It said this is more than half of the workers at the site - the usual threshold for mandatory union recognition in a workplace.

GMB said Amazon bosses have 10 days to respond and agree to voluntarily recognise the union, adding if this does not happen, they will start a statutory process through the Central Arbitration Committee.

In March, Amazon Coventry workers began a six-day walkout in an effort to win a pay increase. Since then, more than 560 workers at the warehouse have gone on strike, bringing the total number of days of action to 14. Meanwhile, hundreds of GMB members will begin fresh ballots for industrial action at five further fulfilment centres across the Midlands: Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, Coalville in Leicestershire, Kegworth in Leicestershire, Rugeley in Staffordshire, and Rugby in Warwickshire. The ballots - which open today [31 March] and run for several weeks - will ask GMB members if they are willing to strike over a 50p pay rise enforced by Amazon management.

• Amazon workers in the UK are planning further strike action, as they are dismissed as "an insult" a 50p an hour increase to its minimum hourly pay for warehouse workers to £11.
• The pay rise announced on Wednesday, which will be implemented this weekend, means minimum pay has risen by 10% in the past seven months, putting it ahead of the legal minimum wage for those aged 23 or over, which will be £10.42 an hour from April.
• However, Amanda Gearing, a senior organiser for the GMB union, which has backed workers at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse in the first ever strikes by its UK workers, said: "We're listening to Amazon workers and the message is very clear: this new pay rate is an insult."

• "We’re calling on Amazon bosses to come to the negotiating table and resolve this crisis.”
• More than 350 staff at the West Midland fulfilment centre will walk out on 28 February, 2 March and from 13 to 17 March.
• The strike is in response to Amazon's refusal to offer workers a pay rise of £1 per hour above the National Minimum Wage.

The GMB union has announced that Amazon workers in the UK will be striking on January 25th. The strike will take place at the company's warehouse in Coventry and is the result of a pay dispute. The GMB union has stated that hundreds of workers voted to strike over a 50p per hour pay offer. The union is calling on Amazon UK bosses to give workers "a proper pay rise and avoid industrial action." Amazon has previously stated that it offers "competitive pay" and "comprehensive benefits" to its workers.