Hundreds of workers at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Coventry, England have begun a formal strike ballot on Thursday, adding to a season of widespread industrial action in Britain.
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Hundreds of workers at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Coventry, England have begun a formal strike ballot on Thursday, adding to a season of widespread industrial action in Britain.
The ballot begins Thursday and will run until Oct. 19, the GMB union said in an emailed statement. Any action to protest against the company’s pay packages would likely to take place in November, the union said, which could potentially disrupt distribution activity on Black Friday and Christmas.
An Amazon representative was not immediately available for comment.
Workers have been threatening strikes across the UK after a major rise in the cost of living. Two of Britain’s largest ports are bracing for overlapping dockworker walkouts in coming weeks, threatening more disruption to the nation’s trade flows in a dispute over pay.
Around 115,000 Royal Mail Plc staff are due to take two days of action from Sept. 30, according to plans previously announced by the Communication Workers Union.
Hundreds of workers stopped or slowed their work in warehouses across the UK in August. Staff on social media and in private messaging groups on WhatsApp and Telegram have been calling for further protests and work stoppages at multiple sites, and for their hourly wage to rise to £15, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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