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Image source, Amanda Gearing
Around 100 Amazon workers joined the picket enactment connected Sunday, GMB representatives said
By Maisie Olah
BBC News, West Midlands
Hundreds of Amazon workers successful Coventry person begun a three-day onslaught successful a quality implicit pay.
The GMB national said 600 members walked retired astatine 06:30 BST and volition not instrumentality until Tuesday, with further enactment owed to instrumentality spot from 21 to 23 April.
Members are calling for a wage emergence from £10.50 to £15 an hour, though the national is not recognised by the US firm.
Amazon had antecedently said that minimum wage had precocious risen by 10% and by much than 37% since 2018.
A spokesperson for the online retailer said it carried retired regular reviews of its wage to "ensure we connection competitory wages", adding that lone a "tiny proportion" of its workforce successful Coventry was progressive successful the dispute.
'Determination to succeed'
More than 100 national members were said to person joined the picket enactment extracurricular the Amazon warehouse successful Coventry connected Sunday, according to GMB representatives.
Amanda Gearing, GMB elder organiser, said: "GMB members are worthy more; they volition not judge a wage emergence of pennies from 1 of the world's wealthiest corporations
She added: "The ambiance is great, it's 1 of determination to succeed. The workers consciousness they person nary different choice, they are each facing fiscal hardship."
Image source, Amanda Gearing
Image caption,Cars tin beryllium seen lined up extracurricular of the warehouse successful Coventry
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