Unions step up their action at Southampton City Council

U.K.

The Unison and Unite unions are in dispute with Southampton City Council in the South East of England where the management are threatening to sack over 4,000 workers and offer them their jobs back on poorer pay and conditions, including on average a 5% pay cut. Recent talks with the council have failed to produce any progress and so the unions are now involving more workers in the industrial action. The unions organised a demonstration through the city centre on 13 June to highlight their case to local people.
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