U.K.
Public service unions GMB and UNISON have organised a fundraising event for refuse workers in Leeds in North East England. The workers have been on strike for six weeks in a dispute over pay cuts that could cost some of them up to £6,000 (€6,500) a year. The local authority is trying to impose the pay cuts as part of a strategy to prepare the cleansing services department for privatisation.
Read more at > GMB (EN)
Refuse collection workers in the Grand Lyon region covering 58 local authorities have entered their third week of strike action in opposition to privatisation, to maintain existing services and for improved pay and conditions. Unions have criticised the Grand Lyon authority for adopting private sector methods in trying to beat the strike by using contract workers to collect rubbish. The unions involved are the CGT, FNAF/CFTC, FO, CFDT, FA/FPT, UNSA et UGICT/CGT. Read more at > CGT Service Publics (FR)
The FP-CGIL, CISL-FP and UIL-FPL public service federations have called a one-day strike on 27 September to put pressure on the AIOP employers’ organisation to return to negotiations over the sector agreement covering private residential and care homes. The three unions normally negotiate with AIOP and ARIS, the employer organisation representing religious providers. AIOP, however, is aiming to negotiate a different agreement with the UGL trade union – an organisation outside of the three main confederations and with links to the far right – and the unions argue that this flies in the face of
