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Workers at two Weetabix plants are to stage strike action later this month in a dispute over contracts, trade union Unite said.<\/p>\n

Members of the union working as engineers will walk out for 48 hours from 21 September.<\/p>\n

This will be followed by strikes on the same day every week throughout the autumn until 30 November.<\/p>\n

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Unite said the strike would cause “widespread delays to production and lead to shortages of Weetabix and other popular products made at the factories including Alpen, Weetos and Oatibix”.<\/p>\n

Sky News has contacted Weetabix for comment.<\/p>\n

Unite said the industrial action was being carried out “in opposition to the company’s plans to fire and rehire them on vastly inferior contracts”.<\/p>\n

It claimed that workers faced changes to shift and working patterns which would result in some being up to £5,000 a year worse off.<\/p>\n

Unite’s recently-elected general secretary Sharon Graham<\/strong> said: “The idea of ‘fire and rehire’ is abhorrent to me.<\/p>\n

“If Weetabix decide to go down this route and they overstep the line then I will absolutely defend our members.”<\/p>\n

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Strike action had originally been scheduled for June but was postponed to allow for talks with the company.<\/p>\n

Those talks led to new proposals being put to the workers – which were overwhelmingly rejected in a ballot.<\/p>\n

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