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600,000 Council Workers Vote to Strike - Summer of Chaos Looms
by LotusFlower | June 23, 2008 at 12:05 pm | 89 views | add comment
As the credit crunch bites deeper and Gordon Brown asks for wage retraint the threat of widspread disruption to life in Britain over the summer months comes a step nearer.
Council workers today voted in favour of walkouts in a dispute over pay, beginning a summer of discontent in Britain.
Members of Unison in England, Wales and Northern Ireland voted by 55 per cent to take industrial action after rejecting a 2.45 per cent pay offer.
The union's negotiators will decide tomorrow what action to recommend to the national strike committee later this week.
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June 23, 2008 at 12:05 pm by LotusFlower, 89 views, add comment
