On 14 and 15 February low-wage contract workers employed by OCS Group mounted a two-day strike at Tata Steel in Port Talbot (2,900 employed), in protest to the cleaning and catering multinational’s miserly pay offer. Some 70 members of UK union Community, most taking their first industrial action, blocked two entrances to Tata’s Corus Strip Products mill because a living wage has not been paid them since June 2010. Community calls on OCS to make a pay offer that exceeds the national minimum wage. OCS responded to the strike by bussing in managers and others to perform mill-site services, while unionised steelworkers at Tata were supporting the strike actions by not cooperating with scab cleaners.
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