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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%)

The Branch Secretary has sent the attached letter of complaint following no contact from Thompsons regarding the challenge to the redundncy situation at Shropshire Council.

Onthe 14 March 2014 I sent the following correspondence to Councillor Barrow, please see the response attached.

Dear Councillor Barrow,

Bright Lake Consultancy:

UNISON, the UK’s largest union, is today calling on the Chancellor to lift the pay cap on public service workers or face the consequences.  The union is demanding a “fairness package” for public services including a job cuts moratorium as well as a pay rise to match inflation in 2014/15.  In addition the union is looking for a range of benefit increases to help the the lowest paid, underemployed and unemployed.

Dave Prentis, General Secretary of UNISON, said: