GMB
This coverage examines the activities, negotiations, and campaigns of the GMB union as they relate to the UK retail sector. Reports focus on industrial action, wage disputes, collective bargaining outcomes, and the union’s influence on working conditions across retail businesses. With insights into how GMB initiatives impact employers, employees, and wider retail operations, the reporting supports executives, managers, and professionals navigating workforce relations within their organisations.
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Feb- 2023 -14 FebruarySupply Chain
Amazon workers in Coventry to hold further strike action
Workers at Amazon have announced that a further seven days of strike action are set to take place at the company’s Coventry warehouse. More than 350 staff at the West Midland fulfilment centre will walk out on 28 February, 2 March and from 13 to 17 March. It comes as…
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8 FebruaryAnalysis
What the Amazon strikes mean for the retail industry
Last month, Amazon workers staged its first ever strike in the UK, with hundreds of fulfilment centre employees voting to walk out “in anger” over the company’s 50p per hour pay offer and poor working conditions. An industrial action ballot saw a majority of more than 98 per of workers…
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Jan- 2023 -30 JanuarySupermarkets
Asda faces strike action after plans to cut jobs and reduce pay
Asda workers are reportedly planning strike action after the supermarket unveiled plans that could place 300 roles at risk across the business, and affect the pay of over 4,000 hourly-paid workers. A union source told Sky News that GMB representatives met last week after Asda first revealed its set of…
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25 JanuarySupply Chain
300 Amazon warehouse workers hold first UK strike
The GMB union has organised a strike for about 300 Amazon warehouse employees out of 1,000 at the e-commerce retailer’s Coventry depot today (Wednesday 25 January), the first to be held in the UK. The union has been working to boost its presence at the company, as today’s strike action…
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Oct- 2022 -31 OctoberHigh Street
Wilko increases staff pay to £10
Wilko has announced it has increased its entry level hourly rate to £10 – 50p above the national living wage. The pay increase comes after a successful national ballot of team members undertaken by the GMB trade union. The retailer said it is committed to an additional market forces temporary…
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Sep- 2022 -13 SeptemberAnalysis
Retailers’ demands of the new PM
Liz Truss is fresh in her new role as prime minister with enough enthusiasm to tweet, “it’s time to deliver for the people of the United Kingdom”, but while the new Tory leader was yet to be decided, business owners were left with fears that their upcoming winter troubles would…
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5 SeptemberFeatures
Are we set for a winter of strike action in the Retail industry?
As the RMT strike makes waves across the UK, the incoming cost-of-living-crisis has come into sharp focus. With energy bills set to skyrocket to unprecedented levels, concerns about how the public is going to survive the winter have been contrasted with rising profits from oil and gas companies. With coordinated…
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Aug- 2022 -16 AugustAnalysis
Staff satisfaction should be top of Amazon’s agenda
Amazon has been making plenty of headlines recently, with news of its recent Q2 financial results depicting a net loss of £1.6bn in spite of a 7% increase in sales. However, out of all the Amazon-related news circulating, its current battle with unions and the company’s refusal to offer staff…
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8 AugustNews
Amazon workers plan further strikes over 35p pay rise
Amazon workers are preparing for a further wave of strikes in British warehouses in the coming days as disagreement over pay and conditions escalate, according to the Telegraph. The announcement comes as workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Tilbury, Essex, walked out over what the GMB Union described as a “pathetic”…
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Apr- 2022 -7 AprilNews
Asda distribution workers vote for strike action amid sick pay dispute
The GMB Union has announced that thousands of Asda distribution workers have begun an consultative vote on industrial action over proposed cuts to sick pay and a real terms pay cut. It said bosses are trying to “force” through a pay deal which would see workers lose sick pay entitlement…
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