Workplace Report October 2013

Recruitment and organisation news

Going underground at Amazon

The GMB general union says it has an underground network of trade unionists secretly organising at the union-averse online giant Amazon.

National officer Maria Ludkin told the Labour Party conference: “To be a trade unionist at Amazon is to be part of an underground movement. I can’t even stand here today and let you know which parts of the country our members work in, because to do would be to put their jobs in jeopardy.”

www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/employer-hostility-at-amazon-and-next