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Amazon says that it will be giving thousands of workers at its United Kingdom fulfillment centers a pay raise.
According to The Guardian, employees will be getting a nearly 10% wage increase starting on September 29, ranging between £13.50 and £14.50 ($17.73-$19.05) an hour depending on location. Anyone who's been working for the company for three or more years will get a larger, £13.75-14.75, hourly raise.
This comes more than a month after Amazon beat back an organized labor push from workers at the company's Coventry warehouse by a narrow 28-ballot margin. Of the roughly 2,600 workers at the facility, 49.5% were in favor of unionizing in a July 2024 vote. Leading up to that, U.K. general trade union GMB accused Amazon of illegally pressuring employees to attend seminars where it was implied that unionization would affect their pay, overtime and benefits. Coventry workers had also held several strikes in the months before the vote, as part of a push to raise their pay to £15 an hour, and collectively bargain with management.
In a statement to The Guardian, GMB organizer Rachel Fagan said that the newly-announced pay raise amounts to "too little, too late" from the e-commerce giant. A spokesperson for Amazon said that the company is "proud" to announce the wage increases, and that it shows how they "continue to offer industry-leading benefits."
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