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NORTHERN Irish shop workers celebrated a victory over tight-fisted supermarket chain Lidl yesterday.
The company announced that that it would now include workers in Northern Ireland under an £8.20 an hour “living wage” it had previously offered only to workers in England, Scotland and Wales.
The Unite union had called a protest against the firm’s sacking of an employee for pointing out its unequal pay policy on Facebook.
Irish Congress of Trade Unions assistant general secretary Peter Bunting said: “Today’s victory for workers in Lidl is a victory for the pressure placed on their unresponsive managers from the trade unions, namely Usdaw and Unite.
“Lidl must now recognise the trade unions and sit down to negotiate a just resolution of the outstanding issues, not least the outrageous sacking of a Unite member.
He added: “If this Tory government cared in the slightest about ‘hard-working families,’ it would be enforcing a universal right to collective bargaining, not trying to strangle unions with Westminster’s Trade Union Bill.”
