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I spent months with Amazon workers in Coventry before they narrowly voted against unionising. This is what I learned

  • Written by: Tom Vickers, Associate Professor in Sociology and Convenor of the Work Futures Research Group, Nottingham Trent University
I spent months with Amazon workers in Coventry before they narrowly voted against unionising. This is what I learnedThe vote at Amazon's Coventry site fell by the narrowest of margins.Zeynep Demir Aslim/Shutterstock

Amazon workers in Coventry have narrowly voted against a proposal that would have forced the retail giant to grant the GMB Union formal recognition. With a high participation rate of 86% of eligible voters, 50.5% voted against forcing recognition, a...

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