The company was accused of storing childrens’ voice and location data for years.

Amazon fined £20 million for violating child privacy with Alexa

The GMB said this would mark the first time workers at the retail giant would have formal union recognition for collective bargaining.

Amazon asked to formally recognise union at strike-hit Coventry site

GMB union members at the Coventry fulfilment centre will stage a three-day walkout from Sunday.

Hundreds of Amazon workers walking out amid pay dispute

The Book Depository online shop is set to be shut down at the end of the month by parent firm Amazon.

Amazon-owned online shop Book Depository to close

There will be a number of walk-outs in April, the Union has announced.

Amazon workers in Coventry announce fresh strike

The owners of Amazon’s Symmetry Park want to put another building next door

Plans to expand Amazon warehouse site revealed

The online giant employs more than 50,000 people across the UK.

Amazon raises minimum starting pay for workers by 50p to £11

The cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company's history, adding to the 18,000 employees the company said it would lay off in January.

Amazon to axe another 9,000 jobs globally

Amazon will close its warehouses in Hemel Hempstead, Gourock and Doncaster.
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Campaigners objected to the scale of the proposals for a distribution site in West Yorkshire.

Plans for huge Amazon warehouse rejected after public backlash

 Ministers have been urged to crack down on the sale of nitrous oxide cylinders, also known as laughing gas.

'A serious problem': Amazon sells laughing gas 'with no questions asked'

Photograph of heaters seized at Port of Felixstowe before being sold on Amazon.  
Photograph from Suffolk County Council press release.

The heaters posed a serious risk of electrocution, said trading standards officers.

Deadly heaters 'due to be sold on Amazon' seized at port

Series two of the British drama thriller television series created by Tom Moran is filming in Farnborough, Hampshire.

Amazon Prime offering work experience on filming of second season of TV series

The GMB union said more than 350 staff at the fulfilment centre in Coventry will walk out on February 28, March 2 and from March 13 to 17.

Amazon workers announce series of strikes at warehouse in pay dispute

Members of the GMB union, on the picket line outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry, as Amazon workers stage their first ever strike in the UK in a dispute over pay. Picture date: Wednesday January 25, 2023.

Although the action is unlikely to disrupt customers, it has huge implications, as Deputy Political Editor Anushka Asthana writes.

Why Amazon's first ever UK strike matters

Members of the GMB union at the company’s fulfilment centre in Coventry voted to walk out in protest against a pay rise the union said is worth 50p an hour.

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