Amazon workers are going on strike, executives: It doesn't matter!

It is reported that Stefano Perego, vice president of Amazon's global operations, said: "As long as we provide competitive wages and benefits, we do not think that our employees will choose to join a union, but it is their own choice."

He added: "Amazon is not worried because it is a choice they have to make and we are well aware that the company is very competitive."

However, Perego's statement does not seem to be convincing. Earlier this year, more than 300 workers at Amazon's Coventry warehouse went on strike to protest for a pay rise - this was also the first strike initiated by Amazon workers in the UK.

In an interview, an Amazon warehouse worker said: "If possible, I hope the company will treat us as robots, because even robots are treated better than us."

"If Mr Perego believes Amazon does not need to negotiate with the GMB, then he is clearly completely out of touch with his employees," Amanda Guerin, a senior organizer at the GMB union, told the publication via email. "Amazon is one of the richest companies in the world, yet wages are woefully low and completely uncompetitive."

"Amazon employees don't want 'priceless benefits', they want enough cash in their pockets to make ends meet and support their families."

The tech giant has long been known to obstruct workers from forming unions, even paying anti-union consultants up to $20,000 a week, who called union organizers "thugs" and promised to solve problems if workers didn't join a union.

Despite this, workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York, won a victory last year when they successfully voted to form a union. It seems that the struggle between Amazon and its employees will not be resolved anytime soon.

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