AMAZON workers rose up against billionaire Jeff Bezos in a series of walkouts yesterday after he gave them a derisory 35p-an-hour pay rise. Angry staff at his vast distribution centres have vowed t…
Footage shows angry staff at the Tilbury Amazon LCY2 centre, which is the company’s second biggest in the world.
And there were even claims that workers were being threatened with disciplinary action if they were caught filming or writing on social media about it. One worker told The Sun: “This is a huge fight. We’re rising up. We plan to block the gates here at Tilbury early in the morning so lorries can’t leave.In Rugeley, the protests have caused delays to more than 100,000 parcels.
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