Qinetiq staff to strike
JUN 05, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023402
The Register : British staff at Qinetiq , the company formed from an uneasy mixture of privatised UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) research facilities and profitable US war-tech companies, have voted to strike in protest at pay freezes and redundancies.Prospect, which represents some 2,000 of Qinetiq’s UK staff - whom it describes as “specialists” - says that a strike ballot gave a result of 72 per cent in favour of strike action after management announced a pay freeze for 2009. The union had already said its members were “outraged” after 400 British job losses were announced last month.
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