Staff to vote on action over pay cuts as Boots posts huge profits

MORE than 900 Boots staff working in 57 stores around the country are to be balloted for strike action over company plans to introduce cost-saving measures.

According to Mandate trade union, which represents staff, talks on those savings broke down following a disclosure from Boots that the company is extremely profitable.

“As a result Boots has now threatened to terminate all previous negotiated agreements with Mandate. Boots posted €20 million profits for the year to March 2008 in Ireland alone,” a spokesman for the union said.