Birmingham Council Workers Move Closer to a Strike As Ballot Is Threatened

Birmingham Post › September 11, 2007

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The prospect of an all-out strike by thousands of Birmingham council workers moved a step closer last night after the biggest public sector union vowed to ballot its members for industrial action over the imposition of a pay and grading review.

Unison warned that front-line services including refuse collection and street cleaning could be severely disrupted following an escalating row over the city council's Single Status salary shake- up, which will leave more than 5,000 local authority workers facing pay cuts - some by as much as pounds 10,000 a year.

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Birmingham Council Workers Move Closer to a Strike As Ballot Is Threatened

There are also fears the Benefits Service, which organises council tax and housing benefit, could als...

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