GMB Union, which represents a third of Wilko staff, says that job cuts will be ‘suspended’ while administrators consider “multiple” bids, hours after the labour organisation wrote to Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch claiming that bidders which aimed to save jobs had “difficulties” engaging with administrators at PwC.
The GMB Union revealed last week that the majority of Wilko staff appear set to lose their jobs, some as soon as next week, after a major bidder dropped out. Some shops are still expected to be saved by smaller bidders, but it now appears that the most likely scenario involves most of Wilko’s 400 shops closing.
