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Union warns of tea shortage as Tetley workers prepare to strike

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The first ever strike by workers at Tetley’s has sparked fears of a tea shortage. Almost 150 GMB members working at Tata Consumer Products, which makes Tetley Tea in Teesside, voted to walk out in anger at “poverty pay”. Industrial action is due to take…

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