Birmingham - Con Dem Flagship Council declares war on its workforce

The people of Birmingham have the double misfortune of a Con Dem led City Council implementing the anti-democratic cuts agenda of a Con Dem Government. And workers at the UK’s largest local authority are bearing the brunt of ruthless redundancy programme and unilateral changes in terms and conditions of the whole workforce.

Last Friday’s announcement of 7000 job losses over the next four years was followed up yesterday by a Cabinet decision to impose contracts which remove the unsocial hours payments set out in the NJC contract for local authority workers. http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/02/15/birmingham-city-council-on-collision-course-with-unions-97319-28170155/

UNISON members are now moving towards a branch wide industrial action ballot following on from the protracted and still unresolved dispute in the Council’s refuse collection and street cleaning service:
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