NUCLEAR plant bosses backed down yesterday over their attempt to stop staff pay during last week’s bad weather.

Negotiators from workers’ unions Unite, GMB and Prospect won the agreement following a sit-in at the Somerset site by about 600 Keir Bam workers angry at EDF chiefs’ refusal to pay wages when snow stopped work last week.

After being told to return to their lodgings last Thursday and not being able to work over the weekend, staff were told via text that they would not be paid for the Friday, Saturday or Sunday.