nuclear industry - strike at sellafield
WORKERS, DECEMBER 2003 ISSUE
Over 500 GMB and AMICUS members struck at the end of October at the Sellafield nuclear recycling plant, run by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. The strike, the first stoppage in over 30 years, centred on the failure to harmonise wages. GMB and AMICUS members regard the employer's refusal to implement the harmonisation agreement until 2009 as reneging on past promises to deliver the deal in April 2004.
The dispute, rumbling since 1999, has now been translated into action. Further rolling days of stoppage are planned.