GSK avoids strike as UK work­ers ac­cept pay ne­go­ti­a­tion

GSK CEO Em­ma Walm­s­ley can breathe a lit­tle eas­i­er now that hun­dreds of em­ploy­ees in the UK have called off a po­ten­tial strike.

Last month, more than 1,000 en­gi­neers, tech­ni­cians, lab­o­ra­to­ry an­a­lysts, ware­house em­ploy­ees and oth­er work­ers vot­ed in fa­vor of strik­ing against GSK over what they called “a de­riso­ry” pay raise. On Mon­day, the em­ploy­ees ac­cept­ed a 10.5% pay raise — a “sub­stan­tial im­prove­ment” on the 2.75% they said they were ini­tial­ly of­fered.

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