U.K.
Over 400 members of the PCS civil service union are being balloted for strike action in response to employer plans for a new two-tier pay system. The workers are employed at heritage sites around the current, such as Stonehenge, and PCS is concerned about the employer’s plans not just to have two levels of pay at the same workplace but to introduce regional rates of pay as well.
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Workers at English Heritage, the public service body that looks after some of the UK's most famous historical monuments such as Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall took two hours' strike action last month. They were protesting at an average 1.5% pay increase (inflation in the UK is currently at 3.4%). Read more at > PCS And at > Prospect
Ambulance workers, members of the SIPTU trade union, are being balloted for strike action in protest at the failure of the government to produce a key report on the sector. It is over two years since the government said it would publish a capacity review that the union sees as essential for a proper debate about what is needed to ensure a fully funded and operational service. Read more at > SIPTU
While union members at EDF Energy celebrate securing an improved pay deal after taking strike action, Scottish Power workers are being balloted over action to defend their employment conditions. Workers at EDF will get a larger lump sum, an additional amount for workers in the South East to compensate for pay differentials and further improvements for revenue protection staff. Around 1000 Scottish Power Energy Network employees are being balloted for industrial action short of a strike in protest at the company's imposed change to the entitlement to rostered days off and refusal to negotiate.
