This motion was passed at a GUCU Branch meeting Wednesday, 5 July 2023
This branch notes:
- That Amazon made a profit of over £155m last year and its founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos is currently the third richest person in the world.
- That workers in Coventry have led the first Amazon strike in the UK following an imposed 50p pay increase last year and have just renewed their strike mandate for a further 6 months.
- That Amazon workers were represented at the How We Fight, How We Win Rank-and-File conference, which adopted this statement.
This branch believes:
- The company has used union-busting tactics from bullying and harassment to calling police on pickets to employing an extra 1,300 people in the warehouse to dilute union density and stop GMB gaining union recognition.
- That striking Amazon workers need maximum solidarity from across the labour movement in their fight.
This branch resolves:
- To support and build the mass rally outside the Amazon Coventry warehouse called by the strikers on 5 August, by:
- adding our branch as a supporting organisation
- sending a delegation from our branch
- sharing on our email list and social media channels
- working with other local trade union branches, trades councils and organisations to book a coach to Coventry on 5 August
- To make a donation of £200 towards the cost of the rally and the Amazon workers’ strike fund.