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Workers responsible for constructing and maintaining some of the UK’s most critical infrastructure\u00a0have voted to take strike action over a pay dispute<\/h2>\n

Employees at the Stanlow, Fawley, Valero, Grangemouth, and Mossmorran oil refineries have voted to take strike action, alongside workers at the Sellafield nuclear facility.<\/p>\n

Drax and Hartlepool nuclear power station<\/a> employees will also announce strike action in the coming days.<\/p>\n

These workers, who fall under the National Agreement for the Engineering Construction Industry (NAECI), rejected a proposed pay increase of 8.5% for 2024 and 3.5% for 2025.<\/p>\n

Despite a last-minute attempt by contractors to improve the offer to a 10% raise in January 2024, followed by a 5% increase in 2025, the workers still voted to strike.<\/p>\n

The Blue Book agreement<\/h3>\n

The NAECI\u2019s Blue Book agreement<\/a> is 8,000 workers in this sector, nearly half employed at mainstream refinery and power station sites nationwide.<\/p>\n

Workers are responsible for constructing new critical infrastructure and maintaining and repairing power stations, oil refineries, pharmaceutical plants, and petrochemical facilities.<\/p>\n

The Blue Book sets employment terms for hourly-paid engineering construction workers across various projects in the UK. The NJC, representing employers (ECIA, TICA, Select) and unions (Unite the Union, GMB), manages the agreement and negotiations.<\/p>\n

If the NAECI hasn’t been formally adopted at a specific site, individual contractors can register their workforce numbers with the NJC to use it.<\/p>\n

The GMB will consider further strike action<\/h3>\n

Over 50 representatives from the GMB and Unite unions within the industry will convene to discuss their next course of action.<\/p>\n

\u2019Our members\u2019 pay has fallen over 20 per cent behind inflation. The employers have forced our members into a position where they are taking part in industrial action ballots of this scale for the first time in their careers,\u201d said Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, national officer at the GMB.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message from the workforce is loud and clear: value their work,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

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