1,200 Amazon UK Jobs At Stake As Company Prepares To Shut Down 3 Warehouses

Amazon.Com, Inc AMZN looks to close down three of its U.K. warehouses in 2023, likely to impact 1,200 employees.
Hemel Hempstead, Doncaster, and Gourock will shut down this year, making way for two new fulfillment centers, Bloomberg reports.
The new sites will ultimately create 2,500 jobs in the next three years.
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Amazon proposed to offer jobs to the employees at the affected warehouses.
Recently, Amazon shared plans to slash over 18,000 jobs, or 1% of total employees, in a record layoff as it struggled with the behavioral change in consumers on pandemic recovery.
The GMB union called the move a “kick in the teeth” for staff and said it was unreasonable to ask employees to move to a different location, “which may be many miles away.”
The downsizing came after Amazon succeeded in thwarting unionization at its warehouses.
Amazon also battled warehouse unionization attempts in the U.K. apart from the U.S.
Price Action: AMZN shares traded higher by 0.11% at $87.46 on the last check Tuesday.
Amazon Warehouse in Maryland photo via Wikimedia Commons