Proactive Investors - Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) will grant operational staff in the UK a pay rise following a dispute which has seen workers repeatedly walk out in recent years.
Employees such as delivery drivers and those in fulfilment centres will receive between £13.50 and £14.50 an hour from September 29, equating to a rise of 9.8%, the company said.
This will increase to between £13.75 and £14.75 for those who have worked at Amazon for over 36 months.
Amazon added this followed £550 million worth of investment in increasing pay for its UK staff since 2022, which had prompted a 35% rise in hourly rates.
It comes after almost 40 days of strikes by GMB union members at Amazon’s site in Coventry as part of a fight for union recognition and £15 an hour.
GMB organiser Rachel Fagan argued the rise was “too little, too late,” however.
“Amazon’s reputation is in the gutter over its treatment of its own workers, and now company bosses are trying to plaster over the facts,” she commented.
“Unsafe working conditions, low pay and excessive surveillance blight the lives of Amazon workers every single day.”