About 1,300 Sellafield Workers Walk Off Job This Week

About 1,300 workers at the U.K.’s Sellafield Site walked off the site Monday as part of a labor dispute, site license company Sellafield Limited confirmed yesterday. The “unofficial action is as a result of a dispute between a main contractor and a sub-contractor,” according to a Sellafield Limited statement. The contractors involved are part of a construction project and are not linked to parent body organization Nuclear Management Partners. “Sellafield Ltd can confirm that around 1300 contractors working at the site for a number of sub-contracting firms that operate under the umbrella of the National Agreement for Engineering and Construction Industry agreement have withdrawn their labour,” according to Sellafield Ltd. “Sellafield Ltd is not directly involved in the dispute, which does not involve any of our employees, but we have taken steps to ensure that safety and security at the site are unaffected by this unofficial action, and we will be closely monitoring further developments.”