Coventry Amazon workers walk out over pay row in UK first | ITV News

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Amazon workers are staging their first ever strike in the UK in a dispute over pay.

Members of the GMB at the company’s fulfilment centre in Coventry voted to walk out on Wednesday in protest against a pay rise the union said is worth 50p an hour.

Staff at the Coventry warehouse scan stock which is then sent out to Amazon fulfilment centres, in order to be shipped to consumers.

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