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REFUSE workers in Newham may have lost more than £20,000 each in pay over the past decade due to bad management, a trade union claimed today.
Unite said that bosses at Newham Council have failed to live up to an agreement signed between the union and senior management in 2007.
The agreement was intended to ease the progression of refuse employees on the national pay scales, and to ensure smoothness in pay increases.
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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Thousands to join ‘megapicket’ in solidarity with striking refuse workers in Birmingham
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As Birmingham’s refuse workers fight brutal pay cuts, Strike Map rallies mass solidarity, with unions, activists, and workers converging to defy scab labour and police intimidation. The message to Labour? Back workers or face rebellion, writes HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE