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GMB slams Amazon for closing Rugeley site following strikes
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MOVES by Amazon bosses to shut a strike-hit warehouse in the West Midlands are “spiteful and reckless,” the GMB union said on Friday.

The US-owned online retail giant has confirmed plans to permanently close its Rugeley fulfilment centre and move operations to a new site in Sutton Coldfield.

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