Workers at Nestlé will vote later this summer whether to go to on strike over pay.

Union officials announced on Friday that the first national strike ballot at the fmcg giant would go ahead in protest over what it called “pay restraint”. The ballot will go ahead in the next few weeks, the Press Association reported.

“We are extremely disappointed to have been forced into a position of balloting our members for industrial action,” said Jennie Formby of trade union Unite.

“But Nestle – a hugely successful and profitable company – has consistently refused to respect the agreed negotiating process.

"Instead they are imposing a policy of national pay restraint and pressing on with a move to non-consolidated performance-related bonuses.

She added: "Our members do not want to take industrial action, but faced with such intransigence on the part of the company they have been left with no alternative."

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