In the coming weeks, a strike vote of more than three thousand members of the Unite union of Northern Ireland's largest employer, the Moy Park Poultry Plant, will be held.

The union affirmed that during ongoing salary negotiations, union members would vote against “unjustified leadership demands.” Moy Park is the largest privately owned company in Northern Ireland and one of the leading European producers of poultry meat, with more than 6,300 people employed in its enterprises.

The cause of the conflict is the company's decision to temporarily close part of the production at a key processing plant and changing working conditions. Workers called it a “blow” to livelihoods, while Sean McKeever, a regional Unite employee representing Moy Park members, said the company “intends to attack the working conditions of workers in the region.”

Sean McKeever added that “during recent wage negotiations, they put forward proposals aimed at reducing shift allowances, sick pay, the right to leave, the allowance for visits, nominal, fixed days and decent breaks, that is, . put forward working conditions that are unacceptable to these workers. ”

“Management should think again - this is not a labor force that will stand aside when they are being reduced and limited in the struggle for rights and rights,” the union leader summed up.