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More than 3,000 Amazon 'associates' given opportunity to vote in historic ballot.
Could force company to recognise a union for the first time in the UK .
If the GMB wins, it would give workers the right to negotiate over pay, hours and holidays.
Amazon is notoriously hostile to unions, and is known to be hostile to them.
Amazon workers have described what some view as anti-union tactics.
The company sees itself as a disrupter’ including in relation to employment law.
Amazon is taking legal action in the US , seeking to have the National Labor Relations Board watchdog declared unconstitutional.
The GMB ’s current bid for formal recognition is a second attempt.
A spokesperson for Amazon said: “Our employees have the choice of whether or not to join a union. They always have.” But for now, despite the odds against them, the small band of GMB activists in Coventry are hopeful they can make history.
“I’m quite positive about it,” says Gearing .
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