workers offered oneoff £1400 payrise this year example earn £30,000 then get £31400 this year.then the following year you still have £30,000 to negotiate that years rise.
these 2 plants have been mothballed before,i cant remember how long it was for and there was redundancies.the only thing I can say is that there is strong demand for the London brick product as our factory has increased capacity in the last year