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Fujitsu workers to strike

published Thu, Nov 05 2009 10:27 GMT
Workers at Japanese giant Fujitsu are to stage a three-day strike in a row over pay, jobs and pensions, it was announced today.Unite said its members will walk out on 12, 13 and 16 November following an overwhelming vote in favour of industrial action. It will be the first national strike at a UK computer company, according to the union.The union is protesting over proposals for 1,200 redundancies, a pay freeze and plans to close the final-salary pension scheme to new staff.National officer Peter Skyte said the union had written to Fujitsu earlier this week following the result of the industrial action ballot, but had received no formal response."Our members are saying enough is enough and employees' representatives on the ...

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