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Staff Reporter, 30 Aug
Local authority workers are to be balloted for industrial action after
rejecting a pay offer.
Members of Unite, employed by local authorities in England, Wales and
Northern Ireland, voted by 85% against the offer which the union said
was worth £1,290 plus 2.5% on allowances.
The workers include refuse collection, housing workers and care staff.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Our members undertake
vital frontline roles that ensure that local communities are well
maintained, safe and attractive places to live, they have drawn a line
in the sand and will not accept any further erosion of their pay.”
An industrial action ballot will begin on August 30 and Unite said if
there is a yes vote, strikes could begin later this autumn.
Unite said local authority workers have endured more than a decade of
pay freezes and below inflation pay increases which has seen their pay
decline by over a quarter in real terms.