SUPPORT staff at the University of Birmingham have taken strike action against poverty pay and to press management to deliver on its pledge of a backdated wage rise from last year.

Hundreds of Unison members at the university leafleted passers-by to raise awareness about the dispute.

Workers are angry that the university sought to end pay negotiations in late 2018 by unilaterally imposing a pay settlement, in a way that a trade unionist described to the Star as “misleading.”