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Unions urge council workers to reject their latest pay offer



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Published Date: 23 October 2008
COUNCIL workers were today receiving ballot papers asking them to vote on the latest local government pay offer.
But the three unions involved – Unison, GMB and Unite – are urging their members to reject the proposed increases of three per cent for this year and 2.5 per cent for 2009.

The new offer comes following two one-day strikes across the country, which saw schools and council offices close and bins go uncollected.

Dougie Black, Unison regional organiser and lead negotiator, said: "This offer is not a good offer – especially when inflation is riding around five per cent – but our negotiators felt that we should put it before our members in a full postal ballot.

"It is clear from employers' statements that they are digging in for a major dispute, and we will be telling our members that increased and longer strike action will be needed to deliver an offer that protects them from the major rises that they have experienced in food, heating and fuel."





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  • Last Updated: 23 October 2008 10:46 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Big T,

23/10/2008 14:37:24
Never mind a wage rise - get rid of their juicy final salery pensions that the tax payer cannot afford!!
2

the truthsayer,

23/10/2008 15:25:09
me thinks the sleekit union officials are hoping to scare their members into accepting this bum deal .
then they can go back to playing footsie under the table with the employers who like too keep a pet or two
woof woof
shame on the lot of them
3

Capitalistic,

edin 23/10/2008 16:21:58
tut tut big t i smell yellow
4

Jimmy Le Pie,

23/10/2008 17:04:49
No surprises there then!
5

me150,

23/10/2008 17:40:29
In the current economy they should not be looking for a rise, they should wait until the economy settles for dozens of good economic reasons.

Give them the choice of a wage increased or no wages. If they are given an increase don't they realise that the council will cut staff numbers.

It's time to think out of the selfish wee boxes they and their unions are living in.
6

James07,

Embra 23/10/2008 18:12:48
to #1 and #5

I dont think there is anything wrong with our council workers wanting to avoid a pay cut, or heaven forbid, get a small rise!
The truth is the people who are really raking in the money are not the workers, but the council bosses.

Why not pick a fight with the wealthy elites in this country who are ripping us all off, and show some support!

In this economic crisis, ordinary people should be sticking together, and demanding that we dont let the bosses and owners cut our pay, or make us unemployed.

We need to stick together, or the bosses and owners will shove all the costs of the recession onto ordinary people like ourselves (with public services cuts, unemployment, increased prices), while making sure that they are still getting richer.
7

madrab,

Edinburgh 23/10/2008 18:33:14
#6

I think you'll find that every time 1 to 5 see one of these headlines about council staff being unhappy at the pay rise that they have been offered, or see council workers doing apparently nothing during working hours they think of several questions such as.

Why are there so many of them doing very little?

Why do they get a final salary pension when I don't?

Why do I pay so much council tax each month to keep these lazy jobsworths in a job?

Why, if they are paid so poorly, do they not apply for a position in the real world?

Why do they get six months sick leave on full pay each year?
8

Eve,

Scotland 23/10/2008 20:11:21
I'm sick of there wineing. There getting a pay raise. I'm no. They have a prement job. I and many others don't, We could be told the morrow don't back tomorrow.

The get public hoildays on top of there hoildays. Thoes of us who are forsed to be temps have a limted amount of hoildays that include public hoildays.

9

loosehead,

Edinburgh 23/10/2008 21:34:16
And there I was thinking that union members elected the general secretaries to carry out the members` wishes. It seems that the union secretaries tell the members what they should be thinking and what they are to do, with only the charade of a loaded ballot.
10

Arrow,

edinburgh 23/10/2008 23:14:53
"Unions urge council workers to reject their latest pay offer"
i read that and wondered if the Unions are making council workers a pay offer why are they then urging these same workers to reject the Union's offer? does not seem to make much sense then i was never was much good at English composition. or is just that some sub-editor is worserrr than what i are?

 

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