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TRADE union Usdaw announced a strike ballot for Weetabix workers in Northamptonshire today in a dispute over pay and shift patterns.
The vote, due to close on July 13, comes after the breakfast cereal giant announced a reduction in unsociable-hours pay as part of a proposed change in shift patterns at the company’s AP4 plant in Kettering.
If workers back strike action, Usdaw anticipates that regular 24- or 48-hour walkouts could start from the end of July.
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
