Biscuit factory staff who produce Jacob’s Cream Crackers and Twiglets walk out in row over pay 

Biscuit factory staff are to go on indefinite strike today as they become the latest workers to demand better pay.

More than 750 workers who make Jacob’s Cream Crackers, Twiglets and Mini Cheddars ‘Nibbles’ will take part in the strike.

The staff at Jacob’s Biscuits factory in Aintree, Merseyside, are set to walk out ‘every single day until bosses agree to negotiate’.

The GMB union’s Eamon O’Hearn told the Mirror: ‘These workers are rightly angry. They put themselves on the line to keep the company going during the pandemic.

‘Now they need some help through the cost-of-living crisis, but it’s falling on deaf ears’.

Sources revealed that pay negotiations have been dragging on for more than a year, but to no avail so far.

It is believed that staff were offered a 4.25 per cent rise but the GMB is understood to want 10 per cent.

In the last couple of months, Jacob’s workers have been seen forming large picket lines outside the entrance to the factory.

More than 750 workers who make Jacob’s Cream Crackers, Twiglets and Mini Cheddars ‘Nibbles’ will take part in the strike. Pictured: Jacob’s staff striking outside factory in October

It is believed that staff were offered a 4.25 per cent rise but the GMB is understood to want 10 per cent. (File image)

The GMB union’s Eamon O’Hearn told the Mirror : ‘These workers are rightly angry. They put themselves on the line to keep the company going during the pandemic. Pictured: Jacob’s staff in October striking

The site has been operating in Aintree for more than 100 years. On November 11, GMB Branch 84 said on Twitter that the planned strikes would go ahead. 

Alongside the announcement, they posted an image of a banner which read: ‘Give us back our pay. Give us a pay rise not your crumbs. Leave our T&C’s alone.’ 

Britain is facing a winter of discontent as 100,000 civil servants, thousands of nurses and rail workers and 1,000 bus drivers are set to go on strike in the run-up to Christmas.

Dozens of strikes are set to wreak havoc across the nation as part of union bosses’ plans to cause maximum disruption.

Thousands of nurses across Britain voted to strike for the first time, leading to fears that death rates will rise if the walkouts spread. 

The staff at Jacob’s Biscuits factory (pictured) in Aintree, Merseyside, are set to walk out ‘every single day until bosses agree to negotiate’

Strikes are expected to begin in early December and could take place over two dates, potentially a Tuesday and a Thursday. They could last until early May 2023. 

Meanwhile some 3,500 Border Force, immigration and visa officers are threatening to strike over the holiday period, sparking agony for millions planning to travel home or abroad. 

Postal deliveries will also face delays, as more than 115,000 workers plan walk outs. And to heap more misery on the nation, further rail chaos is planned for November, with Network Rail, London Overground and London Underground staff. 

Union barons have repeatedly threatened to bring the nation to a standstill in what critics claimed was an attempt to force the first ‘general strike’ in nearly 100 years. Nurses, civil servants of all kinds, train and bus drivers, postal workers and even Asda workers have either agreed to strike or are considering it.

A spokesman for Pladis Global, Jacob’s parent company, said: ”We regret that the GMB has decided to take this course of action, despite all of the efforts we have made to reach an agreement with the union. 

‘However, we want to reiterate that our door remains open to the GMB for further discussions with their representatives.’