600,000 Council Workers Vote to Strike - Summer of Chaos Looms

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.