A 'summer beer drought' could be on the horizon with hundreds of brewery employees threatening to strike over their current pay.
The Liverpool ECHO reports that those working at the Budweiser Brewing Group's Lancashire site, which brews Budweiser, Stella Artois, Becks, Boddingtons and Export Pale Ale, voted to down tools over a real terms pay cut. A total of 225 GMB Union members at the Samlesbury site, near Preston, will begin an overtime ban, meaning that they will not engage in training or complete face to face handovers from Wednesday, May 11.
After reported "months of discussion", the union said the world’s biggest brewer tabled a full and final offer of 3% increase for 2022 and 3% for 2023 with increases in overtime rates, reports BusinessLive.
