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Guinness says no Christmas shortage despite staff vote for strike action
About 90 workers at Diageo’s Belfast packaging site rejected a pay offer and will strike for eight days to close a 20-25% wage gap with Runcorn colleagues.
- Around 90 Unite members at the Belfast site announced eight days of strike action from Friday, December 5 to early Saturday, December 13 after unanimously rejecting an inadequate pay offer.
- The dispute stems from workers demanding a substantial pay increase to close a 20% to 25% wage gap with Runcorn site staff, while Unite accuses Diageo of prioritising profits over pay.
- Unite regional officer Michael Keenan warned the strike will `severely disrupt production lines in the run-up to Christmas`, while Diageo said the Marshall Road can packaging facility, Belfast, does not produce beer.
- Diageo responded that there will be no disruption to Guinness or Guinness 0.0 supplies over Christmas and contingency plans exist for its Belfast can packaging site.
- Earlier this month, Diageo appointed Sir Dave Lewis as chief executive amid boardroom turmoil and weak performance while reporting global net profits of more than $2.5 billion this year.
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