Coffinmakers at the Co-op’s only manufacturing facility in the UK are set to take strike action in a row over pay, bringing production to a “complete stop”. About 50 workers at the factory based at Bogmoor Place, Glasgow, have rejected a pay offer which their union, Unite, said is a “real-terms” pay cut.
The offer from Co-op is “less than half” of the latest estimate of inflation according to the retail price index (RPI), at 12.3%. Unite would not confirm what the Co-op’s pay offer was.
Employees will walk out from October 31 every day until November 7 when action will conclude. Members previously voted for strike action by 96 per cent on an 86 per cent turnout in August.
