Frasers Group has warned Unite the Union against taking “reckless and irresponsible” industrial action after the trade body threatened strikes across the retailer’s warehouses in a dispute over pay.
In a strongly worded letter to Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, Sir Jonathan Thompson, chairman of Frasers Group, said he was “extremely saddened” by what he described as the union’s “inflammatory and confrontational” tactics.
“I therefore hope that you will wish to avoid rash action that will risk causing unnecessary disharmony whilst we are working to protect the interests of our people,” he wrote in the letter, seen by The Telegraph.
The warning comes as Unite pushes Frasers — the retail empire founded by Mike Ashley — to commit to paying the “real living wage” as set by the Living Wage Foundation.
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