PICKET LINE: Workers take part in the walk-out outside CAV Aerospace, in Consett
AEROSPACE workers took the first of two planned days of industrial action yesterday.
About 80 GMB union members at CAV Aerospace, in Consett, County Durham, were striking over changes in a shift payment system and, it said, the transfer of work destined for Consett to a facility in Cambridge bought last year. CAV has said the Cambridge factory was bought to protect its supply chain and it was not a replacement facility for work carried out at Consett.
If the dispute is not resolved between the GMB and the company, another day of industrial action is planned for next Tuesday.
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