‘I just want to live’: how UK Amazon workers came to brink of strike

Worker describes conditions in the Coventry warehouse and why he ended up joining a union

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I don't want Jeff Bezos's boat, I definitely don't want his rocket - but I just want to live," says George (not his real name), who works at Amazon's vast Coventry fulfilment centre", and has become involved in organising workers there.

I shouldn't have to work 60 hours a week just to pay bills," he says. I've got kids. Kids need shoes, school uniform; they need to eat. I had a debt collector send me a letter. I phoned them back and we went through my wages and my outgoings and she said, I don't know how you're staying alive'."