U.K.
Staff who work at Windsor Castle, one of the Queen's residences, have voted for industrial action over pay. The workers are protesting over an increasing workload and duties for which they are effectively unpaid. They are likely to begin action short of a strike - removal of goodwill - before the end of April.
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The PCS civil service union took to the streets on Friday 29 April to call for a living wage for cleaners at the Royal residences in London including Buckingham Palace. The union says that the cleaners, employed by private contractors, get just £6.45 (€7.23) an hour. This is above the national minimum wage of £5.93 (€6.65) but below the rate demanded by the union of £7.85 (€8.80). This is the living wage for London calculated by the Greater London Authority and endorsed even by the current Conservative major of London. [Read more at > PCS->http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/news_centre
(July 2016) In separate votes, 87% of library staff and 93% of staff at the Centre Remedial Clinic (CRC) in Dublin have voted for industrial action. The CRC dispute is over plans to close the pension scheme while library workers in 13 local authority areas are concerned about the implications of plans to amalgamate services. The library restructuring decision has been taken without proper consultation with the union over the impact on staff. The CRC pension schemes was closed without consultation and with management refusing to provide the union with information. Read more on the library
