Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Strike action over pay!

UNISON's National Joint Council Committee yesterday agreed to proceed with a strike ballot rather than recommend acceptance of the employers' (slightly) improved offer of 2.475% (with 3.4% for those on the lowest point of the pay spine).

If this decision gets the support of the Industrial Action Committee (expected to meet next week)- which it should as it is in line with the policies of Local Government and National Delegate Conference - we could see national strike action in the autumn, possibly November.

We need to recruit all the non-members we can so they don't cross our picket lines (agency workers can join the union too - and any one who is a human being can respect a picket line!)

This will not be an easy fight but it is a very important one.

The NJC decision took a wise decision (by a wide margin) and now we need to knuckle down and get on with the hard work of winning the ballot and then winning the strike.

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