WORKERS in West Yorkshire making refrigerators and freezers used by leading supermarket chains are to strike over pay.

Around 70 members of Unite at Bradford-based manufacturing firm EPTA, whose customers include Tesco, Aldi, Morrisons and the Co-op, have voted to withdraw their labour after rejecting a 4 per cent pay increase.

The union said the differential between the workers’ pay and the minimum wage had been “steadily whittled away over recent years.”