Tom Baldwin
Unite members in Sharpak entered their second week of discontinuous strike action with the third day of action taking place on 9 December. Workers at the packaging firm in Yate near Bristol are striking against management attempts to impose a longer working week.
The union has been growing in the workplace. People are fed up of bullying management forcing changes and are determined that they won’t get away with it this time.
The well organised pickets and strong public support are beginning to have an effect. Management had previously refused to negotiate and insisted workers who did not sign up to the new terms would lose their jobs. The strike action is forcing them to rethink and they have now opened discussions with the union.