Strike off at Vion Llangefni as Unite accepts 2% pay offer
Paddy McNaught, an organiser at trade union Unite, claimed that Vion had tabled an “improved” pay offer to staff.
However, a company spokesman told FoodManufacture.co.uk that the union had accepted Vion’s original offer of a 2% increase in basic pay.
He said: “Following further discussions with the Unite trade union, the planned industrial action at the Vion Llangefni plant has been called off. Unite has accepted the company’s original pay offer of 2%.”
McNaught declined to comment on the figures, but said: “The dispute is now at an end. We had an eleventh-hour meeting with the company last Thursday and an improved pay offer was put forward by the company. This was put to members at a branch meeting on Thursday night.”
The factory employs about 350 staff.
McNaught has not revealed how many union members voted in the ballot, but FoodManufacture.co.uk understands that of 158 union members at the site eligible to vote at the time of the ballot, only 94 took part, 52 of which were prepared to take strike action.
While this represented a majority of those voting, it only represented 33% of balloted union members, and falls short of the 40% figure the CBI is urging the government to set as the minimum threshold for legitimate strike action.
