Amazon to Shut Three UK Warehouses With 1,200 Staff Impacted
- Workers will be offered other jobs at different facilities
- GMB calls planned closures a ‘kick in the teeth’ for workers
An employee pushes a trolley along an aisle at the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Hemel Hempstead, U.K.
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Amazon.com Inc. plans to shut down three of its UK warehouses this year in an operation that will impact about 1,200 employees.
Hemel Hempstead, Doncaster and Gourock will shut this year, making way for two new fulfillment centers, Amazon said in a statement on Tuesday. The new sites will ultimately create 2,500 jobs and employees at the affected warehouses will be offered jobs at other facilities, the company said.