Remploy workers want strike vote

REMPLOY’S workers are seeking authority for a strike ballot over redundancies.

Last week, Remploy told GMB that proposals for voluntary redundancy were being rolled out across the company, only seven days after the legal consultation period of 90 days commenced on January 24.

Disabled staff will meet the GMB Central Executive Council (CEC) on February 15 over conducting a ballot opposing cuts which affect Oldham’s workshop and 53 other workshops across Britain.

The CEC will be told that following the closure of 29 Remploy factories in 2008, the vast majority of workers who were made redundant are still unemployed.

Remploy unions have put alternate plans to the government — part of which will reverse the rise in the number of managers, which had increased despite the reduction in the number of factories and shopfloor workers.