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Distillery staff at whisky maker Whyte & Mackay are due to stroll out subsequent week after rejecting the corporate’s newest pay provide.
The GMB union stated staff would strike at three Highland distilleries on Monday, with 11 extra days of motion in July then a two week walkout in August.
It comes after 84% of union members on the firm’s Dalmore and Invergordon distilleries in Ross and Cromarty, and Tamnavulin in Moray, voted to reject a pay provide in a poll, which noticed a 90% turnout.
The GMB claimed that Whyte & Mackay had “angered members” by saying {that a} strike by a small variety of staff would have little influence on operations.
GMB Highlands organiser, Lesley-Ann MacAskill stated: “The firm’s rush to recommend distilleries are someway much less vital than bottling and distribution operations was insulting and inflammatory.
“It ought to as an alternative have been speeding to provide honest pay to our member as a result of with out their ability and expertise there could be nothing to bottle and nothing to distribute.”
GMB members had been balloted following what the union stated was a pay provide of between 6% and 7%.
The provide was accepted by Whyte & Mackay staff on the firm’s bottling and distribution websites at Grangemouth, however not the Highland websites.
Whyte & Mackay stated its precedence was to resolve this dispute.
A spokesperson added: “We don’t recognise the substance of the assertion relating to the negotiations.
“Whyte and Mackay has acted in accordance with authorized recommendation, and approached the negotiation in an open and clear method all through.
“We proceed to interact each our commerce union companions to attain a sustainable decision.”
The walkout comes as GMB members at whisky maker Edrington, which makes The Macallan and Famous Grouse, are additionally being balloted on industrial motion in an ongoing pay dispute.