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Casino Workers to Join UK Striking Workforce in Pay Dispute
- Workers voted to reject retention bonus payments of £600-£800
- Employees join growing number of the UK’s workers striking
Striking postal workers on a picket line outside the Royal Mail Plc Bethnal Green delivery office in London, UK.
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The Rank Group’s Grosvenor Casino Unite union members are the latest UK workers to have voted overwhelming in favor of industrial action, planning a 72-hour strike from Sept. 9 as Britain’s economic crisis takes it toll on pockets.
A total of 150 workers from across Grosvenor Casinos’ seven London venues voted to reject retention bonus payments of £600 and £800 as “totally inadequate,” according to a Unite union statement. The Casino workers want an improved pay deal to counter record inflation, the union said.