Workers refuse to accept a pay packet of pennies, says GMB.
GMB Union has today announced that workers at Altrad Belle will begin a week of strike action from Monday 1 September 2025.
The news comes after workers rejected a pay offer from company management and voted overwhelmingly to support industrial action.
The company, one of the UK’s biggest manufacturers of light equipment for the construction sector, has been slammed for paying skilled workers little more than £12 an hour.
Mick Coppin, GMB Organiser, said:
“This is a hugely profitable company expecting staff to stomach a pay packet barely over the minimum wage; these pay talks should have been an opportunity to fix that.
“These are highly skilled manufacturing workers who feel badly let down by company top brass.
“Our door remains open to talks to resolve this, but our members are on the picket line to send a message they won’t accept pennies”.
