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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Jacob's workers in Merseyside agree new pay deal after 11 weeks of strikes

After 11 weeks of strike action, hundreds of workers at a the Jacob's cracker and biscuit factory in Merseyside have accepted a new pay deal.

More than 750 workers at the Aintree factory have been involved in industrial action since late September as they fought for a fairer pay deal. This later turned into an all out strike, with large picket lines held outside the factory every day over the past month.

The Jacob's factory on Long Lane produces millions of cream crackers each year - with more than half a billion individual crackers sold each year. The site has been operating in Aintree for over 100 years and it was the first Jacob's factory to be built in England.

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