Nearly 70% of local government workers considered leaving their jobs in the past year, saying they felt undervalued and poorly paid, an NOP survey has found.
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Local government unions today stepped up the pressure on local authorities in the dispute over pay by revealing their intention to hold a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, July 17.
UNISON is to seek a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, to gain assurances that the work the union had been doing with Stephen Byers on protecting the local government workforce from exploitation will continue.
UNISON, the UK
UNISON, the UK
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The three local government unions
UNISON, representing 860,000 local government workers, today rejected a three per cent pay offer by local government employers, claiming it was a third class pay offer for a workforce trying to build world class public services.
UNISON, the UK’s largest union, today rejected a 2.5 per cent pay offer by local government employers at the end of the first round of pay talks.
Over 55 per cent of local government workers earn less than the average allowance paid to councillors – £12,500 – leaving them among the poorest paid workers in the public sector.