Strike at Pirelli Plant Cancelled

Workers at the Pirelli facility in Carlisle have called off their planned three days of strike action after the tyremaker dropped plans to subcontract grinding operations to a third party. Despite previous assurances from Pirelli that the outsourcing would not result in job losses, more than 700 employees were scheduled to strike on August 3, 4 and 17 after 66.4 per cent of manual workers belonging to the Transport and General Workers’ Union (T&G) voted in favour of industrial action.