Trailer staff stage protest

The workers marched through Corwen

Staff at Wales' best-known trailer company have staged a rally to highlight their ongoing dispute with managers over pay and working conditions.

Ifor Williams Trailers employs 400 at its factories in Cynwyd, Bala and Corwen, and staff are particularly angry that they do not receive extra payments for night shifts.

More than 150 workers and former employees took part.

The workers met in Cynwyd and marched to Edeyrnion Hall in Corwen where the independent Wrexham AM, John Marek, was among the speakers supporting their cause.

Ifor Williams Trailers was founded in 1958, and manufactures agricultural trailers and horseboxes which are sold throughout the UK and abroad.

More than half of the employees are members of the GMB, the union representing a range of production and service sectors and trades.

Dissatisfied with recent negotiations with management officials, the union has decided to call a strike on Monday - the second walkout in a matter of weeks.

Negotiations involving the conciliation service ACAS have so far failed to resolve the dispute.

The union says it sent a request to the firm more than three weeks ago for more talks to try and reach an agreement, but has still not received a response.

In July, more than 200 workers stayed home in a one day protest over pay and working conditions.

The company supplies horseboxes across the world

Members took action over what the union called "a failure to reach agreement in this year's pay and condition review."

Ifor Williams Trailers Ltd said in a statement that the company deeply regretted that the GMB union has determined to strike over the current round of pay negotiations.

"The company will continue to do all it can to resolve the matter to the satisfaction of the entire workforce and to ensure the long-term development of the business in north Wales," added a spokesperson.