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STRIKING British Gas engineers are ramping up industrial action against the company’s fire-and-rehire tactics, with three more four-day stoppages announced today.
As some 7,000 workers downed tools again for a four-day strike straddling the weekend, the GMB union said that action would continue in a similar pattern, starting every Friday, for the rest of February.
The dispute centres on the company’s attempt – using tactics that even Tory ministers have condemned – to impose pay cuts and inferior conditions that would lead to engineers working up to 150 more hours a year without pay.
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down
