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That takes the biscuit: Staff at Tunnock’s to go on strike
But now about 500 staff are planning two one-day strikes, on Thursday and next Tuesday, at the firm’s headquarters in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire.
They are understood to have rejected an annual increase in their wages of around 2% and voted by a majority for industrial action in a ballot organised by the Unite union two weeks ago.
Production will be shut down for four days as they are due to be absent on Friday and Monday because of the September weekend holiday.
Mr Tunnock, the grandson of the company’s founder, Thomas Tunnock, had said the night out was to reward staff for their help, especially during the recession. One worker said: “Conditions at the factory are generally okay but we feel we should be getting a better pay offer than 2%. We are helping to make tens of millions of pounds for the company and we feel we are relatively low paid for all the work we put in. Pay offers in the past have always been higher so we don’t see why we should settle for this.”
Dexter St. Clair wrote:That takes the biscuit: Staff at Tunnock’s to go on strike
But now about 500 staff are planning two one-day strikes, on Thursday and next Tuesday, at the firm’s headquarters in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire.
Tunnock's pay dispute ends as deal accepted
The new pay offer from Tunnock's was accepted by the majority of staff
More than 500 workers at the factory in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, are to have a 2.5% increase backdated to the start of July, followed by a 2.5% increase from next July.
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