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Community, GMB, and Unite have strongly opposed Tata’s decision to close the heavy end operations at Port Talbot steelworks and have vowed to resist these plans
Union leaders have said that workers have been left with no other option but to strike
It is part of the energy giant’s previous announcement to reduce 4,000 jobs by the end of 2020
A procurement specialist has won a sex discrimination case against her employer UK Power Networks over pay and promotion. According to Prospect union, Amy Arnold became aware she was being paid “substantially less” than male graduate trainees, who were doing the same work as her. The union adds over 18 months, she was “consistently refused” […]
Members of the GMB union working at the Sellafield nuclear decommissioning site are calling on the management to re-open talks in the dispute over pay. The union suggests members are seeking a “fair resolution” but in the absence of “meaningful talks”, the GMB Strike Committee will decide on Monday when the first industrial action will […]
Workers at the Sellafield nuclear decommissioning facility have voted in favour of strike action over pay disputes. Members of the GMB union voted by more than three-to-one to cease work at the site in Cumbria. It claims the decision followed the company ignoring requests for further pay talks after it imposed a below-inflation pay rise […]
Firefighters at the Sellafield nuclear site have confirmed they will go on strike this month. Members of the GMB union will walk out for 24 hours on 24th July in a dispute over pay. Sellafield previously said GMB members rejected its offer of an additional task-based payment equivalent to a 5% increase in basic pay […]
Magnox is closing 12 sites accross the country which will lead to 1,600 job losses. The closing sites include Berkeley, Gloucestershire and Bradwell and are to close by September next year. Magnox said: “These proposed reductions arise from planned step downs in the work programme at a number of sites and the implementation of a more […]
The GMB union has put a strike ballot among offshore workers on hold as more talks are to be held. The dispute is over changes to working conditions for employees covered by the Offshore Contractors Agreement (OCA) in UK waters. In Aberdeen yesterday, both sides put forward proposals and agreed to take the proposals away […]