An engineering firm has denied it has plans to 'fire and rehire' 130 employees in Birkenhead.
Mick Whitley, Labour MP for the Wirral town, slated Wabtec, a US-based international manufacturer and supplier of equipment for the railway industry with a site in Birkenhead, claiming it is planning to ‘fire and rehire’ 130 workers with "drastic cuts to their pay and conditions".
The union Unite said its members at the firm’s Birkenhead site would proceed to a strike ballot unless the firm withdrew what it claimed were proposals that would affect employees in various roles such as assembly fitters, trainers, strip and clean operatives, storemen and team leaders.
