Caterpillar workers to become latest in NI to take strike action
There will be picket lines at the Caterpillar sites in both Springvale, Belfast and in Larne on Monday as the initial phase of its four-day strike gets underway.
The action will be put on pause over the Easter period and resume with another four-day strike on April 25.
The action, announced by the Unite trade union, comes amid widespread discontent in a range of sectors with workers pointing to soaring inflation and demanding pay increases to match.
Unite members in the Education Authority, Housing Executive and those employed by local councils recently held a seven-day strike that meant bins went unemptied, school transport was called off and other services were disrupted.
In the absence of a new offer from employers, Unite is now understood to be considering the possibility of a two-week strike by council staff in the lead-up to the election.
And public transport services could also soon be rocked by strike action, after members of both the GMB and Unite unions employed by Translink voted in favour of industrial action in a ballot that closed on Friday.
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