Workers at a pallet warehouse in Trafford who are taking part in the UK’s longest current strike action have taken their fight to London in a bid to bring attention to their pay dispute.
CHEP UK staff in Trafford Park have been striking since December and could continue into the summer if an agreement with their employer is not made. Unite, the union representing the strikers, have accused the pallet supplier of ‘failing its workforce in the middle of a cost of living crisis’ with its ‘below inflation pay offer’.
Members previously said that while CHEP is currently ‘enjoying a boom time’, staff are being offered ‘in reality a severe pay cut’. Following further marches across Manchester last week, around 30 strikers campaigned in London yesterday (April 20) outside the offices of CHEP’s parent company Brambles.
