Around 80 employees at Brake Brothers’ Dundee operation are being balloted for industrial action following a pay dispute, according to trade union Unite.
The ballot involves distribution drivers and warehouse workers at the food wholesaler’s Dundee facility, with voting due to close on 30 November.
Any strike action could disrupt wholesale food distribution to hospitality and retail businesses across Dundee and Fife, potentially affecting deliveries to customers supplied by the operation.
Unite said its members had overwhelmingly rejected a pay offer which it claims leaves Dundee workers earning less than colleagues carrying out equivalent roles at the company’s Newhouse facility in Motherwell.
Under the rejected offer, Dundee-based drivers would receive 17p an hour less than their Newhouse counterparts, while warehouse workers would be 50p an hour worse off.
The union is arguing that employees undertaking the same work for the same company should receive equal pay, regardless of their operating location.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “To make an offer significantly below workers doing the same roles at Newhouse is totally unacceptable.”
