Workers at UK munitions plant that supplies Ukraine to strike over pay

The Guardian ^ | August 8, 2023 | Severin Carrell

[Reverend Wright]

Exclusive: Nearly 50 GMB members to stop work at Ayrshire site that assembles Storm Shadow and Brimstone missiles.

Workers at a munitions plant that supplies Ukraine with missiles are going on strike for two weeks in an escalating dispute over pay and bonuses.

Nearly 50 workers who handle and load missiles at the defence munitions plant at Beith, in Ayrshire, allege they have been significantly short-changed by a pay and bonuses deal given to rocket-assembly staff at the plant.

The Beith site assembles and distributes the Storm Shadow and Brimstone missiles being sent to Ukraine by the Ministry of Defence, which said the strikes would not affect supplies for the war.

The strike by GMB members, which has already involved several one-day stoppages over the past four weeks, is the first to hit Defence Equipment & Support, the MoD’s supplies, equipment and weapons agency.

[Reverend Wright]

This is the Clown World state of Western / NATO military production.

[BradyLS]

“Oi! Where’s our Biden Bucks???”

[frank ballenger]

Without funding this could finally come true:
Suppose They Gave A War and No One Came.

Note:
“An American antiwar slogan from the hippie subculture during the Vietnam War era, popularized by Charlotte E. Keyes in her 1966 article for McCall’s magazine.”
But the poet Carl Sandburg first said a version:
“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”

[Salman]

Why should the politicians get all the money?

Go union! {snicker}

[DesertRhino]

MBDA executives take a pay cut for the duration? They get their bonuses on schedule? Or is it only the workers who take it in the shorts as the government and management scream for more.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Damn the commie unions all over the world have turned into so striking fools. Greed is really kickin’ in with the union thugs.

[SaveFerris]

[“Oi! Where’s our Biden Bucks???”]

Behind the Corvette. Next to the boxes marked “Classified Materials - Do Not Remove”