A second one-day strike is to be held on Monday by Bradford laundry workers in a pay protest.

Staff at Initial Textile Services in Lidget Green are taking the action which follows a first one-day strike last month.

Initial, part of the Rentokil Group, carries out contract work for the overalls of workers at Walkers Crisps and Medimmune and bed linen for Ramada Jarvis Hotels.

The GMB union members earn between £5 and £5.30 an hour.

But they are angry that they have received below-inflation wage increases for several years.

However the management urged them to accept the new pay rates as had been offered at sister-firm Initial Garments, also in Bradford.

Union organiser Rachel Dix described the pay offer as "miserly".

She said members were resolute they would not accept it. She also claimed more workers were joining the action as the deadlock continued.

She added: "As membership grows so will the impact of the strike."

She said the workers would lose money by taking part in the action but were demonstrating their determination to make a stand.

"The company needs to understand that GMB members working here are resolute that they will not settle for a miserly below-inflation pay rise again."

One washroom operative and union member Alan Coates said he would be working on Monday having been asked to leave a union meeting on Friday.

He said: "I am not prepared to go on strike."

A spokesman for Initial Textile Services said: "We are saddened and disappointed that just 20 per cent of our workforce is continuing this industrial action.

"As we pointed out previously our offer is exactly the same as has been accepted at our other plant in Bradford.

"Once again we urge that minority of our employees to accept the improved pay rates so that we can pay them and the other 80 per cent of our staff, who are not in dispute, the new rates backdated to April 1."