Disabled workers at a site in York are to stage a 48 hour strike in protest at the closure of their factories.
Remploy workers Birkenhead and Aintree are already striking and two further 48-hour walkouts are planned later this month as part of a long-running row over the closure of 28 plants.
The York Remploy workers will join the next stoppage on February 13 and 14, unions have announced.
There are a further five official strike ballots in the pipeline among Remploy workers at Hartlepool, St Helens, Treforest, Ystradgynlais near Swansea and Brynammon in South Wales.
Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB, said "It is shameful that disabled workers employed by Remploy are forced to take strike action to defend their jobs.
"These disabled workers are victims of long running poor man
agement and direction that failed to use the changes in the EU procurement laws to provide a steady workload to all factories.
"Remploy workers have been betrayed by the Labour Government who misled the workers, the Labour Party conference and the public that there would be a change of policy regarding choice and public procurement to secure a future for the Remploy network."
Tony Burke, assistant general secretary at Unite, added: "Our members are furious at Remploy management and the former secretary of state Peter Hain, who should be ashamed to approve this closure plan, destroying a first class company that was set up by Labour to provide work for disabled ex-servicemen.
"Trade unions will continue to exhaust every possible avenue and everything in their power to secure the future of the Remploy network."
Source: Halifax Courier
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