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hp walkout

The walkout will supposedly take place on December 7 and will involve 100 staff members, on the grounds that HP’s decision to transfer 150 workers to HP CDS, a subsidiary company, is the enterprise’s way of “taking advantage of weaknesses in current employment legislation to remove pay and pension benefits, including a performance bonus scheme worth up to £2,000 and the final salary pension scheme.”

HP previously said that it would try to have direct talks with the Unite members in order to alleviate the situation without any major actions. However, whether sufficient talks occurred or not, the discontent staff will walk out on December 7 as planned. The Unite members also added to their protest the demand that they not be required to do overtime work (they will work to rule starting with 4 January). Members from the Department of Work and pensions contracts from HP (the former EDS) will also go on strike on December 10, and two further strikes are scheduled for January and February, which will be two-day and five-day long respectively unless the situation is resolved by then.

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