Question follow-through · 1874
Amazon: Trade Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will hold discussions with Amazon on the operation of trade unions in that company.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 25 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 31 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will hold discussions with Amazon on the operation of trade unions in that company.
29 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to bringing a new era of partnership that sees representatives of employers and unions working together in co-operation and through negotiation. The Government is always willing to speak to the representatives of employers and ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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