Team of workers at Severfield’s web page in Bolton start strike motion subsequent week after being denied any pay upward push this yr.
Greater than 90% of GMB participants at Severfield’s Lostock web page – operating as welders, platers and gadget operators – voted in favour of strike motion.
The corporate’s new leader govt, Paul McNerney, who joined from Laing O’Rourke within the autumn, has denied workers a pay upward push as he tries to show the corporate again to learn.
Within the yr to twenty ninth March 2025 Severfield made a pre-tax lack of £17.5m on income of £450.9m at the again of widely-reported issues with welds on HS2 and Nationwide Highways bridges.
Severfield’s monetary issues have persevered into the present yr, with a pre-tax lack of £5.6m reported for the six months to 27th September 2025.
GMB participants at Lostock had been undertaking an additional time ban this week, and can get started with one complete day of strike motion on Monday 16th February, adopted by means of two complete days of strike motion on Monday 23rd February and Tuesday 24th February.
GMB regional organiser John Weir stated: “No employee any place merits to be presented actually not anything. GMB participants at Severfield do extremely professional paintings, in an business the place such skill is briefly provide. Severfield is a big corporate, with revenues of just about part one billion kilos.
“Irrespective of losses in one yr, that staff must shoulder the weight is unacceptable.
“GMB has equipped a spread of choices to settle this dispute, however Severfield continues to mention 0 according to cent is their ultimate be offering, so our participants are left and not using a selection however to strike.”
Initiatives that might be suffering from the dispute are not likely to incorporate the Agratas battery gigafactory in Somerset that Sir Robert McAlpine is development. Structural steelwork on Development One there has only recently been finished – all 23,000 tonnes of it, for a development 525 metres lengthy, 167 metres vast and 34 metres prime at its apex.
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