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3 Aug 22
A wage dispute between Coventry City Council and unionised refuse workers has cost the authority £4m and caused seven months of “disappointing delays”.
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26 Jul 22
Council workers in most of the UK have received a pay offer of a £1,925 increase to their salaries, but unions have given the news a mixed reception.
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7 Jun 22
The three major unions representing council workers in England have requested a “substantial pay rise” this year to help mitigate the impact of soaring inflation on their members.
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1 Mar 22
Local government members of Unite are set to strike next month over an ‘unacceptable’ 1.75% pay rise, whilst other trade unions have accepted the offer.
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20 Aug 21
Public services union Unite is to ballot members in the first part of a process that could lead to strike action over a 1.75% pay rise offer.
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28 Jul 21
Trade unions are likely to recommend their members reject the final pay offer for local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which one official has labelled as “scandalous”.
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24 May 21
Trade unions have rejected a proposed 1.5% pay rise for local government employees, labelling it “insulting”.
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17 Aug 20
Unite members have rejected a proposed 2.75% pay increase for council workers for 2020-21, which the union called “unsatisfactory and insulting”.
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14 May 20
The government has been urged to step-way from a planned public sector pay freeze by union Unite.
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16 Jun 17
Three unions have called for a 5% increase in local government worker pay as figures reveal wages are being squeezed by inflation.
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3 May 16
The Unite trade union has refused to approve the two-year pay offer for council workers, but acceptance from the other two officially recognised local government unions means the deal will be...
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27 Apr 16
The trade union Unison has decided to accept a two-year pay offer for council workers, becoming the second union to accept the deal from local government employers.
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4 Mar 16
Local government workers risk becoming the “whipping boy” for public sector austerity as a result of the pay offer from council employers, the Unite union has warned.