First industrial action at Amazon UK hopes to strike at firm’s union hostility

In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise

Amazon workers at a vast depot in Coventry will stage a historic strike on Wednesday - the first time the delivery giant's UK operations have ever been hit by industrial action.

The immediate cause of the dispute was a 50p-an-hour pay rise offered to warehouse staff in the summer, which many felt was insulting - particularly after they had worked throughout the Covid pandemic.