A STRIKE by workers at a world-leading aircraft components company will go ahead after negotiations between unions and managers failed.
GMB union representatives met bosses at CAV Aerospace, in Consett, County Durham, yesterday, to try to find a solution ahead of threatened strike action on Monday.
Although the company, employing nearly 400 people, has made 100 redundancies in the past six months, the GMB said its reasons for the action were changes in a shift payment system and, it claims, the company had transferred work destined for Consett to a facility in Cambridge.
Despite the involvement of Acas, no agreement could be reached, so a day of industrial action, involving about 80 staff, will go ahead on Monday, followed by a strike on Tuesday of the following week.
There will also be an overtime ban from Monday.
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