Ford motor company is facing the prospect of strikes across its UK sites by salaried and managerial staff, Unite the union announced. The company has been told it must attend negotiations with the conciliation service Acas or Unite will begin preparing to ballot its members for industrial action. Offers put forward by Ford for over 3,000 salaried staff and managers have been rejected by over 90 per cent by both sets of workers. The offer for many of the salaried staff is an unconsolidated one-off payment of 5% of their salary for 2024, meaning their actual wages will not increase this year.
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