Adventure centre strike averted

The Unite general union reports that planned strike action by engineers at Chessington World of Adventures, which would have disrupted the theme park over the May bank holiday weekends, has been called off following an improved pay offer.

The dispute was a result of the company attempting to impose a real terms pay cut on the engineers, Unite says, but, following talks at the Acas conciliation service this week, a revised pay offer was made, which was worth an average of 13.53% across the engineering bargaining group.

The offer has now been accepted and the strikes called off.

Unite regional officer Lui D’Cunha said: “From the outset [we] always believed that Chessington could afford to make an improved pay offer. Once the company realised the determination of our members an offer that met the engineers’ expectations was made.”