Brits could be facing a 'beer drought' as temperatures soar across the UK this weekend. Budweiser workers at a Lancashire factory plan to stage a walk-out from today in a dispute over pay.
Workers are planning to strike for 36-hours over a three per cent pay offer. The GMB Union says staff at the Samlesbury site, which is where popular beers including Stella Artois, Budweiser, Boddingtons and Export Pale Ale are brewed, are suffering a massive real terms pay cut in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.
Workers, who have already walked out several times in June over the pay dispute, will down tools for 36 hours from Saturday at 7pm until Monday at 7am - with a further 12-hour stoppage on Tuesday, July 19.
