Amazon: more strikes
Amazon workers at two sites in the West Midlands will strike again in March. Workers at the BHX4 site in Coventry, where the GMB union has its biggest base, are striking on 19 and 20 March; at a new site in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, on 27 and 28 March. Workers at the Birmingham site struck for the first time in January. The strikes are part of a long-running campaign by workers to win a £15/hour minimum wage. Although Amazon has so far refused to negotiate directly with the GMB, the pressure from the strike campaign has already forced it to up its rates of pay, which will rise again from...