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Gas workers set to ‘burn it and bin it’ in response to ‘sign-it-or-be-sacked’ threat
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ANGRY British Gas engineers are set to burn their “sign-it-or-be-sacked” contracts today as they take to picket lines for the seventh day.
The response of 7,000 GMB members to the profitable company’s attempts to slash pay and impose inferior conditions was a nine-to-one strike vote, followed by “rock-solid” industrial action.
The ceremonial burning of contracts that the engineers have been told to sign by March or face dismissal will take place across Britain at key offices of British Gas and its transnational owner Centrica, including the group’s head office in Windsor.
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