But we did know that somebody, somewhere had to be the first to try.” “We didn’t know what would happen if we crossed that threshold. “As midnight struck, I kept catching other people’s eyes: do we go, or do we stay?” Zee recalls.
Standing in their way at the exit gates was a line of senior managers who had the power to make or break each worker’s future, staring down anyone who might dare to pass. But this was different: a carefully planned and legal effort, the likes of which Amazon UK had never faced. They had walked out before, in a spontaneous, ad hoc protest.
That was the night Zee and his colleagues at Amazon’s BHX4 warehouse in Coventry decided to make history, abandoning their workstations and launching an unprecedented stoppage to demand higher wages. But the cold, foggy, final hours of 24 January this year – they felt different. The 35-year-old father of two rarely gets flustered: not when he first set out on the 4,000-mile journey from his family home in Pakistan to the UK more than a decade ago not during the years he spent struggling for survival on the fringes of Britain’s formal economy not when the Home Office threatened to deport him, plunging his young family into uncertainty.
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