Co-op Funeralcare employees who manufacture coffins have voted for strike motion amidst a pay dispute.
Unite the union has confirmed that its members have voted for industrial motion with an preliminary week of strike scheduled for later this month.
Though the employees are employed at a web site in Govan, it's the Co-op’s solely coffin manufacturing base, with the agency working parlours throughout Lanarkshire.
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The unions claims the dispute is a direct results of Co-operative Funeralcare’s refusal to return to the negotiating desk following members’ rejection of "a measly three per cent" closing wage supply.
Unite members voted for motion by 96 per cent on an 86 per cent turnout.
The preliminary strike motion is scheduled to happen from Monday, August 22 and can proceed every day as much as Monday, August 29.
Unite basic secretary Sharon Graham stated: “The employer concerned right here walked away from the negotiating desk.
"We anticipate extra from an organisation that promotes itself as principled and claims to display a fairer method of doing enterprise.
"They need to begin by exhibiting they're totally different from a few of the unhealthy employers we take care of day in time out, by treating their employees pretty and get again around the desk with a good supply for our members.”
Willie Thomson, Unite industrial officer, added: “Employees at Co-op Funeralcare are rightly livid.
"Our makes an attempt to work constructively in direction of a decision have been contemptuously dismissed with the Co-op displaying an unacceptable ‘take it or depart it’ angle.
"Our members, recognised as important employees, deserve higher from an employer who promotes social targets and giving again to communities. Within the worst value of residing disaster in many years our members deserve higher.”
Co-op Funeralcare have been contacted for remark.
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