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Teachers, transport workers, junior doctors and ambulance staff are among those set to strike in the coming weeks.

The 30,000 square meters plant at Martorelles, opened in October 2017, is set to close on April 22.

Stock-heavy compensation plan means employees to receive 15% to 50% below projected pay targets

In a recently published global survey and in interviews with the <i>World Socialist Web Site</i>, Amazon workers described their dangerous and inhuman working conditions.

Home when you order items online. the point about workers going on strike, around 300 members of the gmb union are walking out today. it is a historic moment, the first time there has been an official strike by amazon workers in the uk. the company was established as a uk presence in 1998 and there has not really been official union recognition until this point. the workers are out on strike because of an issue over pay. let me put that in context and run through some of the big numbers involved...

Sent to your home or business if you have ordered something. the picket line here, with some of the 300 gmb union members out on strike. it is the first strike amazon workers have staged in the uk. the dispute centres on pay. amazon has offered workers a rise of 50p an hour according to the union, which will take it to 11.45, the starting wage, an hour. the union says that is not enough. it wants £15 an hour for amazon workers in the uk. the company says if you look at how much wages have gone ...

By a federal court. lets stay with the big names in the world of technology. today amazon workers in the uk go on strike over their pay and conditions. it is the first official industrial action amazon has seen from its uk workforce. the gmb union says hundreds of workers voted to walk out over a 50 pence per hour pay offer. this follows the wild cat walkouts by amazons uk workers in august of last year over the same issues. joining me now is callum cant, postdoctoral researcher at the oxford in...

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Lockhart, bbc news, westminster. the headlines... germany will also allow nato allies with leopard tanks to supply them to ukraine — the german chancellor made the announcement in the last hour. more questions for the prime minister over the tax affairs of the tory party chairman — and former chancellor — of the tory party chairman and former chancellor nadhim zahawi. hundreds of amazon workers in the uk walk out for the first time, in a dispute over pay. the court heard that the nurse suc...