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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Workers at UK munitions plant that supplies Ukraine to strike over pay

Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, signs a Storm Shadow missile in Kyiv
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, signing a Storm Shadow missile in Kyiv on Sunday. Photograph: Ukrainian presidential press office/UPI/Shutterstock

Workers at a munitions plant that supplies Ukraine with missiles are going on strike for two weeks in an escalating dispute over pay and bonuses.

Nearly 50 workers who handle and load missiles at the defence munitions plant at Beith, in Ayrshire, allege they have been significantly short-changed by a pay and bonuses deal given to rocket-assembly staff at the plant.

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