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by Derek Kotz
Industrial reporter
STRIKE action at retail chain Wilko is “inevitable” if the company fails to row back on “savage” sick-pay cuts, the GMB said today.
Key workers at the stores have voted by nearly nine to one for action in a consultative ballot that closed today.
Despite Wilko workers keeping the outlets open throughout the pandemic, the union says that the company has told staff that they will lose all further sick pay for a year after just one absence, although bosses will keep theirs.
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