GSK workers to vote on strike action
21 December 2010
Over 200 workers at GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) consumer healthcare
division in Coleford, Gloucester will begin voting on whether to
take industrial action on Wednesday 22 December in a dispute over a
zero per cent pay offer.
Engineers, administrators, analysts and warehouse staff are
furious that they have been offered no pay increase in 2010,
following a measly 1.2 per cent pay increase in 2009. The union has
been in negotiations with the company since June this year, but GSK
is refusing to listen to the workers' reasonable demands for a fair
pay increase for 2010. GSK made profits of £1.29 billion in the
third quarter period of 2010.
Unite regional officer, Christine Starling, said: "It is
outrageous that GSK, a world renowned, highly profitable company is
offering its staff no pay increase at all in 2010. GSK can easily
afford to give its staff a decent pay increase. With inflation
running at almost 5 per cent a company worth billions is, in
effect, giving its loyal staff a pay cut. Our members have no
choice than to hold an industrial action ballot in order to get
management back around the table to reach a fair pay deal."
The ballot closes on Friday 14th January 2011.
ENDS
Notes to news editors: For further information, please contact
Unite senior steward, Alan Davies, on 07825 744 806
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