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Aaron Morris

Coca Cola summer shortage predicted as wave of strikes set to impact UK production

A summer shortage of Coca Cola may well be coming to the UK, as workers at a main production plant for the world's leading soft drink plan strikes in a dispute over pay.

Unite said that hundreds of members working at the Coca Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) site in Wakefield will walk out in a wave of bouts of industrial action as of June 8 - with workers voting overwhelmingly in favour of walkouts.

The union said that the potential strikes come over a recent pay offer which they believe was worth an average of 6 per cent - citing that it did nothing to address the current cost of living crisis which the UK faces.

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