Around 150 mill workers employed by animal feed and nutritional product manufacturer AB AGRI will strike in April over pay, Unite the union has announced.
Strike action will take place from 1 April to 7 April. Work to rule will be in affect from 8 April to 14 April, before all out indefinite strike action begins on 15 April.
The workers, based at mills in Suffolk, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Fife, Devon, Lincolnshire and East and North Yorkshire rejected a pay offer of 4.5%. The union said inflation meant this amounted to a pay cut in real terms.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “AB AGRI and ABF can well afford to pay these workers a fair pay rise. Instead, they have forced through a substantial real terms pay cut. Unite never accepts attacks on our members jobs, pay or conditions and AB AGRI workers will receive their union’s full backing during these strikes.”
The strike action will cause significant disruption to the operations of AB AGRI mills, which produce pig and poultry feed.
AB Agri has been contacted for comment.