Ordnance factory workers' indefinite strike fizzles out

MoD tells Parliament that strike threat received but not strike notice

The strike was threatened to protest “the arbitrary and biased decision taken by the present government, in violation of all previous written assurances and agreement, to splinter the 41 OFs into seven non-viable corporations,” according to a press statement issued on July 8 by the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) workers’ unions.

In a statement tabled in Parliament on Monday, the MoD explained: “The OFB employees’ Federations and Associations have opposed the government decision to corporatise OFB. The employees’ federations have intimated, vide letter dated June 29, that they would serve strike notice on July 8 and would commence indefinite strike