The workers at Fujitsu's Crewe office have announced plans to carry out one day of strike action next week, on 30 June, in addition to working to rule and taking a policy of non-cooperation starting that day.

The industrial action could impact a number of contracts, including with the Home Office, HM Revenue & Customs, Marks & Spencer and the Post Office. The work carried out at Crewe, which has around 130 staff, half of which are Unite members, covers programming and software and hardware solutions.

Unite claims that Fujitsu has "singled out" activist Alan Jenney and put him at risk of redundancy, whereas it has helped to redeploy other staff where possible. He could be dismissed from the company on 10 July.

It also said that Fujitsu has breached company processes and agreements in the way it had dealt with Jenney's situation.

Jenney has been working as an IT professional for Fujitsu for 17 years.