Amazon workers have failed to achieve enough support for union recognition in the UK, the results of a landmark ballot have shown.
More than 3,000 workers at the company’s Coventry warehouse were asked if they wanted to be represented by the GMB union.
The GMB, which has staged a long-running campaign for better pay and rights across Amazon’s UK operations, said “workers had been bombarded with an unrelenting campaign of anti-union messages by company bosses, including multiple anti-union seminars and threats to terms and conditions”.
Amazon has always maintained that its employees have always had the right to union membership.
The result means the GMB cannot officially represent its membership among the workforce.
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