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Worker allegedly suspended for getting Covid booster jab
A patient receiving a Covid-19 vaccine booster

A YORKSHIRE engineering company has been accused of suspending a trade union representative because he went for a Covid-19 booster injection during working hours.

The worker, who has not been named, is employed at Longwood Engineering in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire and is a member of the GMB union.

GMB says the worker faces disciplinary action and may lose his job.

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