LOCAL GOVERNMENT WORKERS VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION
UNISON’s local government and school support workers have voted yes to strike action in a dispute over pay. The low paid, mainly women, workers have faced a 3 year pay freeze and have now been offered a 1% pay rise.
The lowest are paid just above the statutory national minimum wage and did not even receive the £250 that Chancellor George Osborne promised they would get two years' running.
Voting was as follows:
For: 49,836 (58.7%)
Against: 35,062 (41.3%)