Amazon accused of treating UK warehouse staff like robots

Ambulances called out 600 times in three years but online retailer denies GMB’s claims of unsafe working conditionsAmazon has been accused of treating staff like robots as it emerged that ambulances had been called out 600 times to the online retailer’s UK warehouses in the past three years.A Freedom of Information request to ambulance services from the GMB union revealed 115 call-outs to Amazon’s site in Rugeley, near Birmingham, including three relating to pregnancy or matern