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Hundreds Of Morrisons Workers Set To Strike Over Pay
Morrisons workers could strike after changes by the supermarket giant they say will leave them £500 a year worse off.
Around 1,000 members of the Unite union working as warehouse stock controllers, cooks, canteen staff, and administrators are now being balloted over a walkout.
They are based in Cheshire and Wakefeld in Yorkshire.
They perform vital roles to ensure the company's lorriers are loaded and shelves are kept full.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite is focussed on our members’ jobs, pay and conditions and these unmerited changes to workers’ pensions will leave our members worse off every month.
"Unite will not stand for such behaviour from any employer, let alone one like Morrisons who is raking in massive profits in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis.
"Its flagrant profiteering and then cutting our members’ take-home pay is a disgrace.”
The union says workers are being forced to increase their own pension contributions while the supermarket giant reduces its own contributions by the same amount.
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