Workers stage sit-in on Hinkley Point C site in row over pay
A digger tears up the ground near the site of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station
WORKERS on the site of the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset are staging a sit-in over bosses’ refusal to pay wages for stoppages caused by recent bad weather.
French energy giant EDF and its contractors Kier and Bam outraged staff by refusing to pay them for days when snow stopped work last week.
Unite's regional secretary Peter Hughes said it was "completely unacceptable" for the contractors to refuse to pay its workforce “while those workers remained available for work during last week's extreme weather and across the weekend."
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