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TUC insists fight will go on after GMB fails to secure right to represent
retailer’s staff by just 29 votes
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The TUC has insisted the battle for union recognition at Amazon will go on,
after workers at the US retailer’s Coventry warehouse rejected the right to
collective bargaining by a majority of just 29 votes.
In a historic ballot that could have forced Amazon to recognise a union for the
first time in the UK, 50.5% of the workers who voted chose to refuse the
proposal for the GMB union to represent them. If 15 had switched sides it would
have gone the other way.
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