FURIOUS workers at Dundee’s Safehouse Habitats have launched a three-month strike as they fight “disgraceful” attacks on their pay and conditions. 

Despite posting net assets of £5.3 million last year, the firm, who manufacture habitats for maintenance work on oil and gas facilities for industry giants such as Shell, Chevron, Repsol, Diageo and Ineos, has decided to slash workers’ pay and conditions, their union said.

Over a dozen technicians at the company, represented by Unite, who made a salary sacrifice of around 3 per cent two years ago to access a sick pay scheme which offered six months at full pay, now face having it taken from them as the firm seeks to revert to the statutory minimum.