Staff at Sainsbury’s Haydock distribution centre were preparing to go on strike for the fourth time in less than three weeks as The Grocer went to press on Thursday.
The latest action follows one-day strikes on December 29, January 7 and January 13 after talks between the company and the Usdaw union broke down over pay.
Workers rejected a pay offer of £7.55 an hour before Christmas claiming they had been promised £8 to put them in the upper pay quartile for north-west warehouse workers. Sainsbury insisted the dispute had not caused major disruption to its supply chain, and said it was “still in dialogue with Usdaw and working towards a resolution”.
Supply chain director Martin White said Sainsbury’s four new automated distribution centres had also coped with a sharp upsurge in volumes over Christmas, although the company admitted the “scale of change affecting stores” had hit sales in the run up to Christmas.
The latest action follows one-day strikes on December 29, January 7 and January 13 after talks between the company and the Usdaw union broke down over pay.
Workers rejected a pay offer of £7.55 an hour before Christmas claiming they had been promised £8 to put them in the upper pay quartile for north-west warehouse workers. Sainsbury insisted the dispute had not caused major disruption to its supply chain, and said it was “still in dialogue with Usdaw and working towards a resolution”.
Supply chain director Martin White said Sainsbury’s four new automated distribution centres had also coped with a sharp upsurge in volumes over Christmas, although the company admitted the “scale of change affecting stores” had hit sales in the run up to Christmas.
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