The roll-out of a Smart meter installation programme across Bristol will be hit when EDF Energy staff stage two days of strike action this month in a dispute over pay cuts, job losses and working extended hours to install the meters.

Unite said that if the proposals were allowed to go through some of its members would lose up to £6,000-a-year in income which was ‘totally unacceptable’.

Meter readers and fixers, office staff and managers, at Clarence Road, Speedwell, Bristol, BS15 1NT, will be striking for 24 hours from 00.01 on Wednesday 12 August and at the same time on Thursday 20 August.

The full press release can be found here EDF Energy workers to strike over ‘pay loss of up to £6,000’