Fujitsu Strikes Start December 18th - Give Them Your Support

Unite members at Fujitsu are to strike over six separate days of industrial action, starting next week, in a dispute over job cuts, pay and pensions.

The IT firm has been served notice that one-day strikes will take place on 18 December, and 7, 8, 11, 14 and 15 January, after workers voted with a majority of 75% to take industrial action.

The strike was sparked after Fujitsu announced plans to make 1,000 redundancies in the UK and close the final salary pension scheme to future accrual, and then imposed a pay freeze earlier in the year.

Strike action was originally planned for November, but this was halted after Fujitsu agreed to talks and to relax deadlines on jobs and pensions. The talks resulted in an offer from Fujitsu which was rejected by 83% of members.

Derek Simpson, Unite joint general secretary, said: "While we remain ready and willing to talk at any time, this further rejection of the company's position leaves no doubt our members are saying enough is enough."

Workers Uniting Group Candidate for Unite General Secretary Les Bayliss said: "I would ask Unite members and Workers Uniting Group supporters to join me at the protest in London on Friday to support our comrades from Fujitsu. Our members are facing challenges to their pay and pensions. We should contrast the company's treatment of our members with last year's £200m profit and the £1.6m paid out to two directors who were made redundant!"

To support our members there will be “Scrooge” protest outside the company head office at 22 Baker Street, London, W1U 3BW at 12:00 on Friday 18th December.

Unite will be providing a coach from the North West leaving Central Manchester with pick ups at Warrington and Crewe at 7am on December 18th.