WAREHOUSE workers and drivers employed by supermarket giant Tesco are to stage a series of pre-Christmas strikes in a dispute over pay.

Unite said more than 1,000 of its members at depots in Antrim, Belfast, Didcot and Doncaster will take industrial action.

The union said the company had offered a 4 per cent pay rise, describing it as “well below” the current retail price index (RPI) inflation rate of 6 per cent.