Second 24-hour strike in Barnet

UNISON members at the Tory flagship council in Barnet, North London are staging another 24 hour strike today in protest at plans to transfer staff to the private sector. Branch Secretary John Burgess said " The council is gambling that the private sector can deliver £100 million savings over the next 10 years. We have seen no evidence to substantiate these claims. In other parts of the country we have seen the consequences of such blind allegiance to 'public sector bad, private sector good'. Our members are not daft, they can see that redundancy and cuts to jobs and services are behind the transfer from the council to a private sector contractor" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/council-staff-to-stage-24hour-strike-2371897.html