ENERGY firm EDF is facing strike action over an increasing number of “spurious” disciplinary actions against Unite members, the union said yesterday.

The latest case involves the sacking of a driver for allegedly eating a Dairylea Dunker while driving. The driver denies the accusation.

But Unite says the case against him is unbelievable — that he was spotted by an EDF human resources manager who happened to be driving on the same length of the M25, and was able to identify the Dairylea Dunker and memorise the vehicle’s number plate.

Unite says that unless the driver is reinstated the workers will be balloted for strike action.

Unite regional officer Onay Kasab said: “We are campaigning at EDF Energy against the number of cases going to disciplinary hearings, the number of disciplinary warnings and sackings on the flimsiest of evidence.”

He questioned whether anyone’s “powers of observation are so great” that they are “able to spot the make of a soft cheese product from another lane of the UK’s busiest motorway.”

Mr Kasab added: “Or members think this takes the biscuit.”

A hearing of the Dairylea Dunker case is taking place today at Bexleyheath.