Union members are protesting at Amazon’s fulfillment centre in Dunfermline.
The GMB will be at nine Amazon sites throughout the UK armed with Asbos in protest at the what they claim is the international firm’s failure to pay proper taxes and a living wage of £7.45 an hour to their employees, and denial of their rights to union representation and collective bargaining.
They will be armed with the messages “Pay your tax: public are fed up subsidising Amazon” and “Pay a living wage”.
They will invite Amazon staff to join the union.
GMB national organiser Paul Clarke said: “The high-tech way Amazon process orders and tracks inventory disguises that it is also a traditional labour-intensive mail order retail business.”
He added the union planned to strip away the high-tech image and expose the exploitation involved in their business model.
“GMB want to bring Amazon to book so that they pay a living wage and to concede the rights of their employees to belong to GMB and have collective bargaining for pay and conditions,” he said.
