'Scandalous behaviour' | Coca-Cola could be next firm to face strike action over 'abysmal' pay row

Coca-Cola could be next firm to face strike action over 'abysmal' pay row

Coca-Cola could be the next firm to be hit by strike action, as workers at one of its UK sites threatened to down tools amid a pay row and accusations of bully tactics from bosses.

Approximately 60 workers at the soft drink giant’s bottling plant in Wakefield, Yorkshire, have unanimously rejected the company’s latest pay offer, and subsequent threats and are now preparing to stage an industrial action ballot, the Unite union said.

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