Business department workers continue strike action for better pay

Caterers stage Caribbean cookout to raise money, with others to join strike on TuesdayCatering staff from the Westminster headquarters of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have staged a Caribbean cookout outside their workplace during the latest leg of a long-running strike for better pay and conditions.They served passersby and civil service colleagues jerk and fried chicken, rice and peas, salad and fruit punch in exchange for donations to their strike fund. By Friday the outsourced workers will have walked out for 15 days since January after further action in February and May. Continue reading…
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