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Graeme Wearden

Oxfam’s first ever strike suspended after charity offers ‘improved pay deal’

An Oxfam store sign.
Almost 500 workers began 17 days of strikes on Friday, with Unite saying the action would affect offices and 200 shops. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA

Oxfam’s first strike in its 81-year history has been suspended, after the charity offered an “improved pay deal to staff”, the Unite union says.

Unite has announced that strikes scheduled for 14, 15, 16 and 17 December have been postponed as an act of good faith, while its members are balloted on the revised offer.

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