'No shows' | Claims of Amazon marking strike staff as AWOL - and what HR can learn from them

Claims of Amazon marking strike staff as AWOL - and what HR can learn from them

Amazon workers taking part in the company’s first ever UK strike were marked as a ‘no show’ by the firm - effectively an unauthorised absence – union bosses have claimed.

Around 350 workers at the company's Coventry warehouse walked out last week in anger over the company’s offer of a 50p per hour pay rise to £10.50 (staff are campaigning for a rise to £15 an hour). This followed a ballot which ended with 98% of respondents voting in favour of industrial action.

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