STRIKING workers at a manufacturer are being balloted today after bosses returned to unions with an improved pay offer.
About 60 staff at The Fin Machine, in Sedgefield, County Durham, stayed away from work yesterday in a one-day strike.
The workers, all members of the Amicus union, staged the first 24-hour stoppage last week in a dispute over a pay increase and relocation package.
But bosses at the company, which makes machinery for the car industry, said workers were being asked today to consider an improved pay offer.
The dispute surrounds the details of a relocation package, with workers thought to be happy with the 2.5 per cent pay rise offered.
All 160 workers at Sedgefield are expected to have transferred to the company's site in Seaham by the end of the year, as part of a move to centralise the business.
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