Turnout among the 460 Unite members eligible to vote was just 45 per cent. Of those who voted, some 83 per cent supported the strike ‘if the company continued to refuse to negotiate’.
so 172 staff out of 1900 voted for a strike over a 2.3% difference in their pay rise.
I would have thought the company could easily cover the work of 9% of their employees, although its certainly going to inconvenience the other 91%.