GSK avoids strike as UK workers accept pay negotiation

GSK CEO Emma Walmsley can breathe a little easier now that hundreds of employees in the UK have called off a potential strike.

Last month, more than 1,000 engineers, technicians, laboratory analysts, warehouse employees and other workers voted in favor of striking against GSK over what they called “a derisory” pay raise. On Monday, the employees accepted a 10.5% pay raise — a “substantial improvement” on the 2.75% they said they were initially offered.