GSK offers payout to end French strike

23 March 2009

UK drug major GlaxoSmithKline has responded to protest action at its French site in Evreux by offering a one-off payment of 5,000 euros  ($6,497) to each member of the workforce. The protest, which stopped  production, is over GSK's plan to cut over 800 jobs in the group, mostly  at this plant. Strikers had called for a payment of 10,000 euros as  "compensation for the suffering endured since the announcement of the  restructuring."

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