UK pubs may face beer shortage before World Cup amid drivers’ strike
by Mark Sweney from World news | The Guardian on (#64VJF)
Drivers with GXO Logistics, which makes 40% of beer deliveries, to strike over pay and job cuts
The prospect of a UK beer shortage is looming as drivers and workers at a firm that makes about 40% of deliveries to UK pubs and clubs are to stage five days of strike action over pay and job cuts.
About 1,000 drivers and dray workers - a person who delivers beer for a brewery - at GXO Logistics plan to stage a first round of strikes between 31 October and 4 November at depots across the UK.
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