Disabled workers to strike

Tuesday 13 September 1994 00:02 BST

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WORKERS at the government-backed Remploy company, which employs disabled people, have voted to strike for the first time in their history after the failure to resolve a dispute over planned changes in working conditions. A ballot among 8,736 disabled staff at 95 Remploy workshops supported industrial action, in spite of warnings by the management that it could threaten the withdrawal of pounds 80m in government subsidies. More than two-thirds of those balloted voted to strike.

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