Workers at Peterborough-based Whirlpool cancel strike action after 'vastly increased pay offer'

Workers at Peterborough white goods maker Whirlpool have cancelled strike action after securing a new pay deal that is roughly in line with inflation.

Staff in the parts factory at the Whirlpool premises in Morley Way, Woodston, were to have started 22 days of strike action starting tomorrow (May 5) over a pay deal they said amounted to an extra one penny an hour.

Now officials of the Unite union say a vastly improved pay offer of at least 10 per cent for most staff has been made and accepted and as a result the industrial action will not take place.