Almost 1,000 workers are being balloted for industrial action at Kuehne and Nagel Drinks Logistics (KNDL), a transport company that delivers beers and soft drinks to pubs.
Dozens of activists from the Unite union’s London hospitality workers’ branch protested outside the Hilton hotel in central London on Thursday of last week.
Rank and file electrician Ian Bradley and his supporters have been campaigning in the race to be the Unite union’s new Executive Council member for the London and Eastern region.
Workers at Ardagh Glass in Barnsley, Doncaster and Knottingley in Yorkshire and Irvine near Glasgow were set to begin a month of strikes on Friday of this week.
Health workers in Leeds and Bradford began a two-day strike today, Thursday, over cost-cutting and changes to their work patterns. The walkout follows a one-day strike last month.