'Like 19th-century millowner': Amazon under fire from UK union

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Online retailer accuses union of spreading ‘sensationalised allegations’. FMTNews Amazon

LONDON: One of Britain’s biggest trade unions demanded a parliamentary inquiry into hundreds of injuries reported at Amazon warehouses across the country in the past three years.

“Amazon are spending millions on PR campaigns trying to persuade people its warehouses are great places to work,” GMB national officer Mick Rix said in a statement issued Monday.The GMB lists 620,000 members across all industries and is one of the largest individual members of Britain’s main opposition Labour party.

The Seattle-based company more than doubled the number of its UK warehouses from 10 to 22 in the past five years.It highlighted one case in which a worker fractured a hand after getting fingers caught in a sliding gate and another in which a person was knocked unconscious and stopped breathing following a head injury.“Amazon purports to be a 21st-century company. It behaves like a 19th-century millowner,” Labour MP Jack Dromey said in the statement.

 

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