BRITISH GAS is set to sack thousands of workers on Wednesday as part of a nationwide attack on pay and working conditions, with staff ready to strike in response.
The firm has torn up the contracts of engineers and office staff and pushed them to sign replacements which reportedly impose 15 per cent pay cuts and other detrimental changes.
To coincide with the firm’s deadline for the mass sacking of engineers in the dispute, Wednesday is also the 43rd day of strike action by members of general union GMB, which said that thousands “have refused to be bullied” into signing the new contracts.