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CO-OPERATIVE members were urged yesterday to join a union revolt against a controversial business deal with Amazon.
General union GMB said that Amazon was the cuckoo in the Co-op’s ethical nest after bosses agreed to have collection lockers for the low-wage business in a 160 high street stores.
Amazon customers who make purchases online would be able to pick items up from the shops under the plans.
But the union has warned Co-op members their new business partner pays most of its 22,000 warehouse workers just £6.39 per hour.
GMB national officer Martin Smith said Amazon was so anti-union that workers had been forced to adopt the tactics of the French resistance.
“Freedom of association is one of the key freedoms in a democracy,” he said.
“Co-operative members should not be associated with Amazon while they deny their staff the freedom to combine and be collectively represented by GMB.”
