Packaging printers’ strike threatens UK can supply at the end of June

Liverpool tinplate can printers at Packaging have gone on strike in a dispute over redundancies and rehiring, threatening can supply at the end of June, Unite the Union has announced. This British and Irish union. It was founded in 2007 when Amicus and the Transport and General Workers Union joined forces. It is the second largest union in the UK (after Unison), with over 1.2 million members. He is affiliated with the Labor Party.

Many major UK companies will face a significant shortage of tinplate cans later this month as a result. The highly skilled printers, who are members of Unite, are staging this protest after the company demanded that they accept new contracts or be laid off (fired and rehired).

The new contracts require printers, who had already agreed to be more flexible, to work in the company’s production room when necessary.

The strikes will begin on Wednesday, June 12 and will last until June 14. This will be followed by further strike actions from June 17 to June 21 and from June 24 to June 25.

The strike action will halt the production of industrial tinplate cans produced for a number of major UK companies including: Morris, PPG, Barrettine, Sherwin Williams, Castrol, Duckhams, Fentons, Bostic, Wilkinsons and McVittie Can Works.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Packaging has acted disgracefully by brutally firing and re-hiring its workers to force changes in labor practices. In addition, he added that: “Their bullying practices will not work. Unite always supports its members to the end when they fight for better jobs, wages and conditions, and Packaging workers will receive the union’s full support.”
Unite’s regional officer, Gary Fairclough, has meanwhile reported that: The upcoming strike action will halt production and cause delays and disruption throughout the Packaging supply chain, but this dispute is entirely the responsibility of the company’s management.