Staff at a bottling plant in Paisley operated by whisky company Chivas have voted to accept a revised pay offer and have called off strike action.

Previously workers had voted in favour of industrial action but have now accepted the offer from employers.

Chivas announced last November that the Paisley plant will be closed down and operations to Dumbarton by 2019.

Gavin Newlands, the MP for the area where Chivas operates said: “I am pleased that Chivas have moved from their previous holiday pay stance thus allowing the Paisley workforce to accept the revised offer from the management and prevent industrial action locally.

Mr Newlands has been working with the unions to try and secure the full consolidation of holiday pay from the Chivas Brothers management.




“I have been working with the union on behalf of the local workforce and have been lobbying management to fully consolidate the holiday pay that the workers were not only entitled to, but promised.

“It is still disappointing that an agreement could not be reached with the workers in Kilmalid and as many of the Renfrewshire workforce transfer over to that site, it is something that has to be monitored.

“I am still incredibly disappointed that Chivas have decided to move from their operations in Renfrewshire and will continue to offer any assistance that I can to the local workforce during this period.”

 

 

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