Glasgow coffin supply facing disruption as workers set to strike for third month

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Glasgow coffin supply facing disruption as workers set to strike for third month
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Bosses have 'failed to make an acceptable offer' to resolve the long-running pay dispute.

A Glasgow coffin factory is facing disruption to its supply as workers prepare to go on strike for the third month in a row.

Around 50 craft workers based at the Co-op’s factory in Govan are fighting for a fair pay award. The company has offered around 4.0 per cent for 2022, and 5 per cent for 2023, which has been rejected amid inflation soaring to hit a 40-year high of 14.2 per cent .Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “The Co-Op seem to be revelling in playing the role of Scrooge this Christmas.

Willie Thomson, Unite industrial officer, added: "Bosses at the Co-op Funeralcare and Co-op UK have quite frankly dumped their cooperative values in the bin. They have chosen to subcontract and pay third party suppliers in preference to their workers who are rightly seeking a fair wage settlement.

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