local government

150,000 local government workers in Scotland are being balloted to see if they accept an improved pay offer of 3% following two one-day strikes.

Following a sham "consultation" exercise UNISON negotiators, backed by Unite and the GMB, have called in government arbitrators ACAS to make a binding agreement which members will be unable to vote on.

Local authority staff in Scotland are set to return to picket lines for another day after the employers refused to up their pay offer.

Youth and community workers for local councils have rejected the employers offer of a below inflation pay "rise" of 2.45%.

Scotland faces more council strikes after local government employers refused to increase a 2.5% pay offer.

Tens of thousands of striking council workers disrupted public services across Scotland today while…

Benefits and taxation workers in Haringey Council walked out yesterday at the suspension of two shop stewards following the national pay strike last month.

150,000 Scottish council employees in Unison, Unite and the GMB have set a date for their strike action over a sub-inflation pay offer which would see schools shut, rubbish uncollected and other frontline services hit.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an executive order to sack 22,000 state workers and reduce 200,000 to the minimum wage.

Local government workers across England, Northern Ireland and Wales struck for two days alongside civil servants against sub-inflation pay rises.

Up to 100,000 civil servants could join 600,000 local government workers on strike in July, as 40,000 more council workers in Unite pledge to strike too.

Local government workers have voted 55% in favour of strike action today, making strikes by over 600,000 workers a near certainty over the summer…