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Workers at the Jacobs Biscuits factory in Liverpool will launch eight days of strike action in a dispute over sick pay and "bullying," GMB said yesterday.
Eight hundred workers will walk out of the factory that makes the brand's iconic cream crackers at 7am on Sunday and stage another seven days of action before Tuesday December 17.
The strike comes after the factory's parent firm United Biscuits was taken over by Turkish firm Yildiz.
GMB national officer Stuart Fegan said: "The long-serving workforce has been driven to this action by an ever-increasing management culture of disrespect and bullying. This has to come to an end.
"The latest acts of withdrawing the sick pay, transferring work from Liverpool to Poland and demands for people to work over Christmas are just the most recent instances in a management culture which believes it can threaten its way to a submissive workforce."
