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Unite warns of Tesco distribution centre trouble

UNITE has warned that supplies of stock to Tesco stores in Yorkshire and north-east England could be threatened after “tight-fisted” bosses failed to make a “respectable” pay offer to distribution workers.

The union’s members at the Tesco distribution warehouse in Doncaster are preparing for a consultative ballot after the management refused to propose a decent increase.

The 580 workers want a rise in line with the retail price index (RPI) measure of inflation, currently running at 3.5 per cent, to protect their standard of living.

However, bosses have rejected this, despite the company recording a 28 per cent rise in operative profits this April.

Unite regional officer Harriet Eisner said that the “bosses’ failure to come up with a decent and respectable offer” was to blame for the industrial action ballot.

“While we are some stages away from strikes becoming a reality, such action in the run-up to Christmas would hit deliveries to Tesco stores in Yorkshire and the north-east at a time when competition among the supermarket giants is at its most intense.”

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